WORMS. INTESTINA. 13. Fafciola, 



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13. FASCIOLA. Body flattifli, with an aper- 

 ture or pore at the head, and generally 

 another at a diftance beneath, ieldom a 



Gourd-worm. Fluke. 



1 finale one. 



Thefe are hermaphrodite, oviparous, and arc generally found 

 in the flomach, interlines or liver : the iriteflines are flexuoua 

 and the ovaries lateral. 



A. Infe fling the Mammalia. 



Eominis Found in Mankind. 



Do ever. Verm* p. 54. Clerk Lumbric. p. 119. 



Vulpis Orbicular; head thick; rounded, and fepafated from the" 

 trunk by a circular arch; hind-part flexuoUs at the 

 fides : tail with 1 cylindrical membranaceous appen- 

 dages each fide. 



Goeze Eingeiv; p. 176, tab. 14, fig. 11 — 13* 



In the inteilines of the For.. 



p utor ii Minute and foundifh* with 2 approximate pores. 



Goeze Eingew.p. 175, tab. 1 4. 1 and a half line long* 

 Found in the interlines of the Polecat. 



Metis Body thick : head triangular. 



Goeze Einge<w. p. 176, tab, 1^, Jig, 9, IO, 

 Inhabits the inteilines of the Badger. 



Fefpertili- Elongated round, with red inteflines. 

 onis Mull. Zool. Dan, 2, tab. JZ,jtg. 12—16. 



Goeze Eingo<w. p. I71, tab. 14, fig. l--3» 



In the interlines of the long-eared Bat, which it frequently 

 gnaws through. 



Body reddifh -brown, flefhy, tranfverfely flriate with minute dots 



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*Hepatica Body ovate and fharper before, with a white line down the 

 middle and fpot in the centre. 

 Scbaejf. Monogr. <von. Egelfch. fig. 1 — 17. 

 • ' Clerk. Lumbr. p. 141, ta£. 9, fig. 2, and tab. 11, fig. H ? M. 

 Philo/.Tranf- 49, p. 248, tab. 7, fig. 1. 

 Barbut Genera of Worms, tab. 2, fig. I. 

 Bre/I, Sammitl. p. &9^>fig- * — 4, 

 , Inhabits the liver of Sheep, and is often vomited up in brooks ; 

 is generally found fixed, by a pore at the extremity, and ano- 

 ther in the middle of the abdomen, and occasions dropfy and 

 ihe drforder which is called the rot. 



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