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Chap. IV. 
21, C. eight-valved, whitilh alh colour, with a 
fcaly border 3 middle valves finely punclured. Ame- 
rica. 
■minimus. 22. C. eight- valved, fmooth, black, very fmall. 
Norway Teas. 
cimex . 23. C. eight-valved, carinated, diaphanous, band- 
ed 3 extreme valves finely pundtured 3 fmall. Nor- 
way. 
qfel/us . 24, C. eight-valved, deep black, convex above, 
with a yellowifh fpot on each valve. North Teas. 
gigas . 25, C. eight-valved, thick, convex, white 3 luff 
valve notched, laft toothed, middle ones emarglnate , 
four inches long. Cape of Good Hope. 
ijlandicus . 26. C. eight-valved, fubcylindrical, finely punciurec! 3 
very minute and narrow at each end. 
margins - * 27. C. eight-valved, carinated along the back-, the 
ius. valves projecting over each other in a point. Salcomb 
bay, Sandwich. 
lavis. i '* 28. C. eight-valved, fmooth, with an elevated band 
down the back 3 the length i inch. Loch Broom, 
Rofs-lhire, Salcomb bay. 
■amiculatus 29. C. eight-valved, kidney-lhaped, fragile 3 valves 
imbricated. Kurile illands. 
Lepss, Gen. 2. Lepas, Acorri-Jhell. 
Gen. Char.*— Animal a triton 3 (hell affixed at the bafe, 
and compofed of many unequal eredt valves. 
Species. 
balanus. * r. L. conic, grooved, lid Iharp-pointed, European 
feas, Britain. 
balanoides .* 2. L. conic, truncated, fmooth 3 lip obtufe. Ame- 
rican and Indian feas 3 abundant on the coafts of Bri- 
tain. 
intertexla. * 3. L. fomewhat depreffed 3 valves imbricated and 
obliquely ffriated. Weymouth. 
cornubien- * 4. L. bafe dilated, aperture rather narrow 3 valves 
fis. grooved near the lower edges. Cornwall. 
tintinabu- 5. L. conic, obtufe, bell-lhaped, rugged and fixed. 
lum. Indian and American feas. 
■ diadema. * 6. L. roundilh, fix-lobed 3 valves grooved longitudi- 
nally. European and Indian feas, Scotland. 
balcenaris. 7. L. fubconic, with fix elevated, wrinkled, 4-part- 
ed lobes 3 lid membranaceous, and two-toothed 3 found 
adhering to the pedtoral wrinkles of the balsena 
boops. 
cojiata. * 8. L. fomewhat conic, with equidifiant ribs, diver- 
gent from the aperture 3 lid pointed. On rocks on the 
Pembrokefhire coalL 
zonoides . * 9. L. conic, fmooth, valves pointed, aperture very 
final! 3 (hell fmall, reddiih 3 valves finely teffdated. 
Weymouth. 
tejluctina- 10. L. plano-convex, with fix excavated ffriated 
ria. rays 3 lid compofed of four triangular pieces inferted 
on a membrane. 
galeata. 11. L. helmet-form, with a lateral aperture 3 (hell 
boat-fhaped, fmooth. Adheres to the gorgonia verru- 
cofa, and ventilabrum. 
palmipes. 12. L. ered, conic ; valves palmated at the bafe ; 
Ihell white. 
tu/ipa. 1 3. L. fubcubic, fmooth 3 lid acute, tranfverfely ffri- 
ated. Northern ocean. 
mitella. iq.L. compreffed, ereft, irregularly ffriated. Indian 
* 15. L. compreffed, 13-vaivcd, fmooth, feated on zfcalpeihmv 
fcaly peduncle, which is large, and compofed of 
rings, covered with ftiort hairs. North feas, Ply- 
mouth. 
*16. L. compreffed, five-valved, ffriated, peduncula- cv/m/L-rf. 
ted. American and Atlantic feas, coaff of Devon- 
ffiire 3 is fometimes found in a fulfil flate. 
* 17. L. compreffed, 5-valved, pedunculated 3 ad- analifera. 
heres to the bottom of Ihips, when it is well known 
by the name of bernac/e.—lx. was from this fpecies of 
Ihell that the bernacle goofe was fuppofed -to have had 
its oiigin. Gerard’s account of this transformation, as 
it affords a remarkable inffance of the credulity of the 
times, is too curious to be omitted. “ There are found 
in the north parts of Scotland, and the illands adjacent 
called Orehades, certain trees whereon do grow cer- 
tain (hells tending to ruffet, wherein are contained lit- 
tle living creatures: which fhells in time of maturi'tie 
do open, and out of them grow thofe little living 
things, which falling into the water do become fowles, 
which we call barnakles 3 in the north of England 
brant geefe 3 and in Lancafhire, tree geefe 3 but the 
other that do fall upon the land periih, and come to 
nothing, i bus much from the writings of others, and 
alio from the mouths of people of thofe parts, which- 
may very well accord with truth.” 
“ But what our eyes have feene, and hands have 
touched, we lhall declare. There is a fmall ifiand in 
Lancalhire, called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are 
found the broken pieces of old and bruifed Ihips, fume 
whereof have been caff thither by Ihipwracke, and al- 
fo the trunks and bodies with the branches of old and 
rotten trees, caff up there 3 ike wife : whereon is found 
a certain fpume or froth that in time breedeth into cer- 
tain fhells, in fhape like thofe of the mulkle, but 
lharper pointed, and of a whitilh colour : wherein is 
contained a thing in forme like a lace of Hike, finely 
woven, as it were, together, of a whitilh colour, one 
end whereof is faftened unto the infide of the Ihell, even 
as the fifh of oiffers, and nrulkles are 3 the other end 
is made faff unto the belly of a rude mafs or lumpe, 
which in time commeth to the fhape and forme of a 
bird : when it is perfectly formed the Ihell gapeth open, 
and the firft thing that appeareth is the forefaid lace 
or firing 3 next come the legs of the bird hanging out, 
and as it groweth greater it openeth the Ihell by de- 
grees, till at length it is all come forth and hangeth 
only by the bill : in Ihort fpace after it corneth to 
full maturitie, and falleth into the fea, where it ga- 
thereth feathers, and groweth to a fowl bigger than a 
mallard, and lefier than a goofe, having blacke legs, 
bill or beake, and feathers blacke and white, fpotted 
in fuch manner as is our magpie, called in feme places 
a pie-annet, which the people of Lancalhire call by 
no other name than a tree-goofe : which place afore- 
faid, and thofe parts adjoyning do fo much abound 
therewith, that one of the beff is bought for three- 
pence. For the truth hereof, if any doubt, let them 
repaire unto me, and I lhall fatisfie them by the tefti- 
monie of good witneffes.” lierba//, p. 1588. 
18. L. membranaceous, ventricofe, feated on a tub £ aurita. 
and eared, 8-valved. North feas. 
19. L. hooked behind, 6-valved, wrinkled, not an pfittacus, 
inch long. Chili. 
20. L. 
