W O R M S. Class VI. 



Are eaten by the poor in many parts of Eng- 

 land^ and by the better fort abroad. In old times 

 a favorite difh. They were drefTed with vinegar, 

 honied wine, or mead, parfley and mint ; and 

 efteemed to agree with the flojnach *. They are 

 the firft dim in the famous fupper of Lentulus •}*, 

 when he was made Flamen Martialis, prieft of 

 Mars. By fome of the concomitant difhes, they 

 feem defigned as a whet for the fecond courfe, to 

 the holy perfonages, priefis, and veilals invited on 

 the occafion. Many fpe'".es of fhell fifh made 

 part of the feaft. The reader will perhaps find 

 fome amufement in learning the tafte of the Roman 

 people of fafnion in thefe articles. 



Echini^ the fpecies here defcribed. 



Oftre<e Crudx, raw oy Iters. 



Pelorida J, a fort of Mya 9 flill ufed as a food 

 in fome places. Vide No. 1 5. 



Spboftdyli, a fort of Bivalve, with ftrong hinges, 

 found in the Mediterranean fea. Not the griftly 

 part of oyflers, as Doctor Arbuthnot conjectures. 



Patina Oftrearum. Perhaps ftewed oyflers. 



Pelorides. Balani nigri et albi j two kinds of 

 Lepades. 



Sphondyli) again. 



* Aihenaust lib. iii. p. gi. 



f Macrobzus, as quoted by Arbuthnot. 



\ Rondel. Tejlacsa, p. n. 



GJycymerides 



