Class VI, WORMS, 



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XV. Body not affixed ; naked ; gibbous. 



Many tentacula at one extremity, furround- 

 ing the mouth. 



HOLOTHURIA 



Hol. Lift. Syjl. 109 1. 



Hydra corolliflora tentaculis retra&ilibus frondoiis. 

 Ph. Tr. 1761. /. 75. tab. i. b.Jig. 3. A. B. 



Gaertner. 



Peniafies* 

 41. FlVE' 

 ROWED, 



H. with an incurvated cylindric body, marked with 

 longitudinal rows of papilla ; out of the centre of 

 each ifllie, at will, (lender feelers like the horns 

 of mails; the upper extremity retractile; when 

 exerted, afTumes a cordated form, furrounded at 

 the apex with eight tentacula, elegantly ramified, 

 of a yellow and filver color. 



Found on the more between Penfanct and New- 

 land. Suppofed to inhabit the deep. 



The figure engraven to illuftrate this genus was 

 dredged up near Weymouth. "Tab. xxvi.jig. 41. 



Arifiotle and Pliny make ufe of the words 

 OxoSovgiix and Holothuria * ; but I mould imagine, 

 from the context, that they intend thofe marine 

 bodies, which modern naturalifts ftyle Zoophyta y 

 perhaps Alcyonia: for both of the former make 

 them analogous with plants. Yet Arifiotle hints that 

 they have life ; a difcovery afiumed in later times. 



* Arljlot. Hifi. An. lib. i. r. x. dt Part. An. lib. iv. c. 5, 

 Plinii Hift. Nat. lib. ix» c. 47. 



E 2 XVI. Body 



