Class VI. SHELLS. 



99 



XII. Its animal a Tethys. PECTEN. 



, M -. . ' | t SCALLOP. 



Shell bivalve, unequal. 



The hinge toothlefs, having a fmall ovated 



hollow. 



Lin. SjJ?. 1 144. 2V*. 185. Faun. Suec. No. 2148. Z//?. Maxlmus. 

 Angl. tab. v. ,/%. 29. 61. Great, 



P. with fourteen rays, very prominent and broad ; 

 ftriated lengthways above and below ; ears equal. 



Grows to a large fize. 'Tab. lix. fig. 61. 



Found in beds by themfelves •, are dredged up 3 

 and pickled and barrelled for fale. 



The antients fay, that they have the power of 

 removing themfelves from place to place by vaft 

 fprings or leaps *. This fhell was called by the 

 Greeks Kth?, by the Latins Petlen, and was uied 

 by both as a food ; and when dreffed with pepper 

 and cummins, was taken medicinally^. 



The elegant figure of the crouching Venus, m 

 the Maffei collection, is placed fitting in a fhell 

 of this kind. The fculptor probably was taught 

 by the mythology of his time, that the goddefs 

 arofe from the fea in a fcallop. This perhaps 



* Ariji. Hift. An. lib. iv. c. 4. 

 f Atben-zas, lib. in. p. 90. 



H 2 may 



