Tab. N». 
NOTES AND OBSERVA TIONS. 
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»93- 30. 
197. 32. 
201. 35. 
206. 40. 
207. 41. 
210. 44. 
211. 45 j 
217- 53' 
220. 55. 
221. 56. 
223. 57. 
224. 58. 
Note. The under or leflcr Shell of any Pedlen is eafily to be known from the upper *, becaufc 
the impreffion or the place where the nervous Ligament did adhere is ever to the Icft Side ot the 
under Shell, and to the right Side of the upper or bigger Shell •, and this to be underftood in 
like manner of all Bivalves. 
Oftreum vulgare maximum intus argenteo quodam fplendore albefcens. Tit. 26. de Coch. 
Marin. DJI. Anim. Ang. 
Adde firiatum\ quod tamen intelligendum eft de fuperiore & majore tantum Telia. 
It is but on the one Side or upon the Back of the greater Shell that the Hooks are, fo that the 
other half or lelTer Shell is without them : and therefore we feldom have aXwig of them but the 
lelTer Sheils are all wanting. Alfo the leller valve is edged near the Hinge with fmall Notches. 
The Figure of this Kind of Trce Oillcr is very odd and of wonderful Variety j forne long and 
narrow, forne round and broad &c. 
Ollreae alicujus Virginianse valva altera minor. In the Gulf of Orotigna and the Iflands therein 
in the Province oi Nicamgua on the fouth Sea, are mzuy oi a long Form forne a 
Cubit long, forne lefs, creafed, growing broader and broader to the End ; when they are opened 
they have a fifny Subllance within them and Ihine within as Pearl Oillers do, half cheir length, 
thence by degrees lofing that Ihining towards the broader End. The Pearls within them are 
not fo line as the other. The Indians ufe the Sheils to dig their loofe Ground, faftning the Shell 
to a Handle of V/ood, binding it falt and making a Kind of a Spade thereof. G. F. de Oviedo. 
PurchaJ. I.5. c. 3. Part. 3. 
Concha corallina afpera Aldrovandi. 
N.B. This is the leiTer or under Shell of this Sort of Spondyle, the upper Shell having a 
Break, and from that Break to the Hinge a Slope Cut very remarkabie, as though done by 
Art not Nature. 
Spondylus Rondeletii five Ollrea Gaideropoda Bellonn ex Rondeletio, Aldrovandi. 
This Shell hath high Ridges and fharp, in forne more and forne lefs •, I have counted nine or 
ten in forne. By the toorhing of the Hinge it is a Spondylus, to which the Strength and Thick- 
nefs of the Shell anfwers ; it is of a pale redifh Colour. An hse revera Anomale fune ? verum 
ob diffimiles Teftas, & quod plerifque eae admodum cralfe funt, Spondylis adpofui. 
46. An veri Lapides ? 
Inter Coralium Maris Mediterranei inventum. 
~1 Concha tenuis teft^ Aldrov. 
i. Una & eadem Concha Margaritifera. 
J The Pearls lie under the uttermofl Part of the Circuit of the Oifter in Ranks and Proportions, 
under a certain Part which is of many Plaits andFolds called xJat Ruffe^ior the Similitude it hath 
unto a Ruffe. The Pearls encreafe in Bignefs as they be nearer the End or Joint of the Oifler. 
Sir Ric. Hawkins apud Purchas. L. 7, C. 5. Part. 4th. I faw a very fmall Pair of Sheils irom 
Jamaica, which were long, Oifter like, but the Colour of the Infide was of a blueifh Mother 
of Pearl Colour, and the Hollow or Bafon of a Rhomboid Figure; the Skirts encompaficd 
with a Ridge of the Shell, reaching much beyond it, as in the firft Figure of the Mother of Pearl 
Kind (N°. 224. 58.) is reprefented. One of the Sheils was much Ihallower than the other, the 
Neck was drawn out to a iharp Point after the Manner of Pinnas or Mufcles ; and the Connexion 
of the Shell feemed to be by a certain Number of Ties, which makes me put it in this Divifion. 
268. 104. I have fecn one of thefe Sheils, thrice as big as this, but they are rare. 
This Shell is very ftrong and ponderous, there are two remarkabie broad Lifts from the 
Top to the Border of a dark hair Colour; the tranfverfe Creafes are unequal and not thick fet. 
N.B. I have feen forne of thefe (or be it a different Species, which I incline to) which were 
of a brownifh chefnut Colour, very little fafciated, but rather fmooth ; and whereas the 
Neck and Head or Point of this Shell is very deeply fafciated, thefe were very fmooth; but 
in all Things elfe thefe were very like. 
271. 107. This is a very fhallow and exceeding thick and ponderous Shell, fmooth on the outfide, or if 
you will, fafciated or irregularly worked. On the Infide towards the left Hand it is of a violet 
Purple : The Edges is very full of fmall and fhallow Hatchings, but not indented, the ex- 
treme Edge being fmooth. This is the only Shell of the Kind that I have feen ; it was in 
Mr. C.’s Colledlion that I faw it, and cauied it to be figured. 
N.B. I have feen two other Species very near refembling this Shell in all Things : The 
firft differs in that is very finely ftriated on the Outfide betwixt the regular Wrinkles only, 
thofe Strias being of a very peculiar Make, and this feems to be a Rock-ftone in the Figure 
of a Shell, being extremely white or chaiky, and friable. The fecond is not near fo thick 
and ponderous as the other two deferibed, and is white both withinfide and without, but is 
fafciated with fine thin rifing Edges at certain Dlftances, there being properly no Furrows at 
all anfwering the Edges ; and was brought from the Bay of Campeche in the weft Indies. 
289. 125, This 
