FUATE Vit 
VORTICELLA LUNARIS, 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
A worm capable of contracting or extending itfelf, naked, with 
rotatory cilia. 
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SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Simple, hemifpherical, with a twifted pedicle. 
‘© The {mall head of this animalculum is crater-form, the margin 
of the orifice protuberant, ciliated on both fides, the hairs undula- 
ting, the pedicle eight or ten times the length of the body. As 
often as the mouth is opened, the pedicle extends itfelf ; when it 
is fhut, this is twifted up {pirally, and their motions are often reite« 
rated in a fhort fpace. 
Fic. 2. when fhut. Fic. 3, 
*« Fic. 1. the head, expanded. 
the undulated edge.” 
Miller, Ani. Inf ——Adams’s Effays on the Microfcope. 
Frc. 4. found in infufions of hay, and is called Trichoda Uvula. 
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