ioo SHELL S. Class VI. 



may have been the concha venerea of Pliny, fo fly led 

 from this circumflance. 



Another (hell has the fame name, for a different 

 reafon *. 



The fcallop is commonly worn by pilgrims on 

 their hat, or the cape of their coat, as a mark that 

 they had croffed the fea in their way to the Holy 

 Land, or to fome diftant object of devotion. 



Jacch&us. Lin, Sjfi. 1 1 44. No. 186. Lift. Conch, tab. lS^. fig. 2. 



62. Lesser. 



P. with fifteen broad rays, rounded on the flat 

 fide, and moft finely tranfverfely flriated ; angu- 

 Jated on the convex, and flriated lengthways \ ears 

 nearly equals concave and fmooth on the upper 

 fide. 



A rare fpecies in Great Britain. 



Tab. lx, fir. 62. 



** Both Shells convex, 



Subrufus. Fttur. ter.ulf, fubrufus, roaculofu?, circiter 20 ftriis major i- 



6;. Red. bus, at isvibu*, donatus. Lift, Aug!, p. 185. tab. v. fig. 30. 



P. with twenty narrow rays, finely drifted ; ears 

 nearly equal, and alfo ftria;ed. 



» See No. Sz. 



6 A fpc- 



