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APPENDIX, 
THE BROAD-TAILED LIZARD, 
Lacerta Platura. 
L. Cauda deprejfo-plana lanceolatay margine fubaculeatOt corpore grifeO' 
fujco fcabro. 
Ungues quaji duplicatu Lingua hrevis, lata^ integra, feu non forJicata\ 
apice autem leniter emarginato. 
L, with a depreffed lanceolate tail, almoft fpiny on the margin j the 
body of a dufky grey colour, and rough. 
The claws appear as if double; the tongue is fhort and broad, not 
forked, but flightly emarginated at the tip. 
This Lizard is ftrikingly diftinguifhed by the uncommon 
form of its tail, which is of a deprefTed or flattened fhape, 
with very thin edges, and gradually tapers to a fharp extre- 
mity. This deprefTed form of the tail is extremely rare in 
Lizards ; there being fcarcely more than two other fpecies 
yet known in which a fimilar flrudture takes place. One of 
thefe is the L. Caudiverbera of Linnasus, in which the tail 
appears 
