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CLASS VI. 



VERMES. 

 WORMS. 



MIHI CONTUENTI SESE PERSUASIT RERUM NATURA, 

 NIHIL INCREDIBILE EXISTIMARE DE EA. 



Plinii lib. xi. c. 3. 



SLOW, foft, expanding, tenacious of life, fome- 

 times capable of being new formed from a 

 part ; the enliveners of wet places ; without head 

 or feet ; hermaphroditical ; to be diftinguifhed by 

 their feelers. 



Not improperly called by the ancients, imperfeft 

 animals \ being deflitute of head, ears, nofe, and 

 feet, and for the moil part of eyes - 9 mod different 

 from infects ; from which Linnaeus has long fince 

 removed thefe works of Nature. 



They may be divided into Intestine, Soft, 

 Testaceous, Lithqphytes, and Zoophytes. 



The 



