66 WORMS. Class VI, 



Decacnemos. Stella decacnemos barbata, feu fimbriata, Barrslier, Linckii, 

 71. Ten- /• 55« tab. xxxvii. fig. 64. 



BAYED. 



A st. with ten very {lender rays, with numbers of 

 long beards on the fides -, the body fmall, fur- 

 rounded beneath with ten fmali filiform rays. 

 Inhabits the wefteracoaftsof Scotland. Tab. xxxiti. 



fig- 7 1 - 



"Helianthe- Stella dodecaftis Helianthemo fimilis. Linckii, p. 42. tab* 



moldes? x\\\.fig. 28. 



72.Twelve- 



EAYED. 



Ast. with twelve broad rays finely reticulated, 

 and roughened with fafciculated long papills on 

 the upper part ; hirfute beneath; red. 



Thefe vary into thirteen, fuch as the Trifcaide- 

 taftis of Linckius. Tab. xxxiv. fig. 54. I have 

 had one of fourteen rays. 



Ariftotle and Pliny * called this genus Aru/» 9 and 

 ftella marina \ fays the firft, from their refemblance 

 to the pictured form of the flars of heaven. They 

 afTerted that they were fo exceedingly hot, as tn- 

 ftantly to confume whatfoever they touched. 



* Jriftrt. Hift. An. lib. y. e. ?$: Plinii Hift. Nat. lib. ixr 

 4. So. 



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