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they are hardly difcernible, through the water, from the com- 
mon furface of the brain. -hone ; but when in fearch of food 
they throw out two cones, with membranes twilled round 
them in a fpiral manner, which have a loofe fringed edge, 
looking at the bottom of the lea like two flowers ; and in this 
hate they were difcovered. 
The fpecies of Aflinia called in Barbadoes the Animal 
Flower, and common to many parts of that ifland, although 
rarely before feen on this part of the coafl, was now found in 
confiderable numbers in this fhoal water. 
The animal was firft obferved by Captain Hendie, the officer 
commanding Fort Charles, in looking for (hells which were 
thrown up in great numbers from the bottom of the harbour. 
He found a piece of brain-hone containing three of them in 
different parts of it. Some little time after, I was lucky enough 
to find another brain-hone with two in it ; one of them is the 
fpecimen in your poffeffion ; the other was dehined for exami- 
nation, of which the following is the account. 
The animal, when taken out of the (hell, including the two 
cones and their membranes, is five inches in length ; of which 
the body is three inches and three-quarters, and the apparatus for 
catching its prey, which may be confidered as its tentacula, 
about an inch and a quarter. 
The body of the animal is attached to its (hell, for about 
three-quarters of an inch in length, at the anterior part where 
the two cones arife, by means of two cartilaginous fub (lances, 
with one fide adapted to the body of the animal, the other to 
the internal furface of the (hell : the red of the body is unat- 
tached, of a darkiffi white colour, about half an inch broad, a 
little flattened, and rather narrower towards the tail. The 
mufcular fibres upon its back are tranfverfe ; thofe on the belly 
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