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WORMS. Class VI. 



him, give to fome fpecies the apt name of KWu, 

 or the nettle, from their flinging quality *. 



The antients divided their KW»i into two claries, 

 thofe that adhered to rocks, the Aftinia of Lin- 

 naeus ; and thofe that wandered through the whole 

 element. The laft are called by later writers Urtic<e 

 Solute ; by Linnaus, Medufa ; by the common 

 people Sea Gellies and Sea Blubbers. 



I do not find that the moderns make any ufe 

 of them. They are left, the prey of bafking 

 (harks, perhaps of other marine animals. 



ASTERIAS. XIX. DeprefTed body -, covered with a coriaceous 



SF A.-STAR 



coat ; furnifhed with five or more rays, 

 and numerous retractile tentacula. 

 Mouth in the center. 



* FIVE-RAYED. 



Glacialis. Ast. Lin. Syft. 1099. Faun. Suec. No. 21 1 3. 



54. Com- Stella coriacea acutangula lutea vulgaris Lluidii. Linckii, 



bion. /. 31. tub. xxxvi. No. 61. 



Ast. with five rays deprefTed j broad at the bafe ; 

 fub-angular, hirfute, yeliow -, 'on the back, a round 

 flriated opercule. 



* Ariji. Hijl. An. lib. v. c. 16. Athen<eus t lib. iii. />. 90. 



Thefe 



