[ 3 6 4 ] 
H Two pieces of the common foffil afteria?, one 
with its joints united by futures, the other plain. 
This foflil is well defcribed by Dr. Lifter, in the 
Philofoph. Tranf. N° 112. p. 274. Tab. II. 
I Reprefents one ftngle joint of the foftil afteria. 
K The cavity at the top of the head, or rather the 
cavity in the center of the branched arms of the 
Barbadoes encrinus, where we may reafonably fup- 
pofe the ftomach and inteftines were contained. 
L The under part of the head, to fhew the infertian 
of the arms. 
Plate N° XIV. reprefents, at 
M The Martinico encrinus, or branched headed ftar- 
fifh, with a jointed ftem, fent to Madam Bois 
Jourdain, of Paris, by the name of palma marina. 
This figure is much lefs than the original, which 
is eighteen inches long. 
N The under part of the head, with the arms di- 
vided in a dichotomous or twofold manner, and 
difpofed like branched rays, each of which is fur- 
nifhed with ranges of fmall fingers, or jointed 
fibres, placed on each fide in an alternately pin- 
nated order. 
O One of the joints of the main ftem magnified; 
In this figure, the five jointed cylindrical claws, 
which are inferted in the hollow parts of the ver-> 
tebra, or joint, are exhibited in different views, as 
well to difcover their inward as their outward form 
and texture. On the upper furface of this joint, 
are moft elegantly expreffed thofe curious indenta- 
tions, which conned: the vertebra? together, con- 
2 taining 
