lop WORMS. MOLLUSCA, 34, Clava. 35. A&inia: 



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34, CLAVA, Body flefhy, greganous, cla* 



vate, and fixed by a round peduncle: 

 aperture fingle and vertical. 



Fardfoica. With a whitifh pellucid peduncle, opake red club or head, 

 and covered with pellucid conic erect fpines. 

 Muller Berch. berl Na/urf \. p, 406 tab. 5 fig ^ 4» 

 Inhabit. 1 - the Baltic, on lea we-ds, (hell fifh, and floating dm* 

 ber: Ike the Hydra it pofcfles the power of dilating and 

 contracting the mouth. 



35, ACTINIA Body oblong, cylindrical, 

 flefhy, contractile, fixed by the bales 

 mouth terminal, expanfile, furrounded 

 )vith nurperous cirri, £nd without a by 

 other aperture. 



Thefe marine animals are viviparous, and haye no other Aper- 

 ture except the mouth : they feed on fhell-fiih and other ma- 

 rine ai.irrals, which they draw in with their tentacula or 

 feeiers, in a ihort time rejecting through the fame aperture, 

 (he fli?Us and indigestible parts: they affume \arious forms, 

 and when the tentacula are all expanded, have the appearance 

 of full- blown flowers ; many of them are eatable, and fome of 

 them very fapid. 



R.fa 9 Rufous, with a rofy foyarrjen or mouth, and pale cirri; 



Mull Zoo! Dan \. p 75. tab. 23 



Pbilof. Tranf. 63. tab.} 6. fig 1—3. Hill Anim. tab. 5. 



Inhabits t)ie Ocean, and adhere to rocks: its fhape is vrry va- 

 riable, cylindrical, globular, or evolute : cirri whitifh, {lender, 

 flexible, moveable and (jiortcr than the diameter of the body, 

 £hc tip:-, truncate. 



*Crajficor- Body red, with thick conic cirri. 

 nts * £>banv Natur. MiJ'cel. tab t '330 Barbut tab. 5. fig, 6. 



Bajler opuje. fubf. 3. p. \ 20. tab, 13. jig. I. 

 picquett}. PbtL c lran)a£i % 63. tab. 16. fig. 10. tab. I 7. f II, 12. 

 Inhabits the Atlantic, European, and Nortb Seas, 

 Jficdy pale red, tranfverfely 'wrinkled : cirri whitifh at the tips. 



*?/uffigfa. Tentacula fmall: the margin furrounded with pencilled 

 cirri. 

 }/[ulU 7>ool t Dan* 3, /. 12. tab, 88, fig. ir- 4., 



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