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of the fame fifh, Fig. vm. was the mouth, e <?, in the figure of a 
crofs, which clofed or opened as a ftrong mufcular labium at each 
angle of the crofs did operate ; at each extremity of the labia was 
fixed a leg or a teniaculum , f f, about a quarter of an inch thick, 
flat in fubftance, auborn in colour, between three and four inches 
long (perhaps maimed) ; at the bafis, where thefe joined the 
body, they were larded or fanged by part of the fame cryftal jelly 
as that of the body, flat as a fin ; within the mouth was a cavity 
of about four inches diameter, where its fuftenance with its bowels 
was lodged z . 
Fig. ix. ibid, is the back of another variety of the medufa kind. 
It is convex in the middle, but flopes away quicker than the former 
at the edge, which is thin ; in the centre it has a pale purple crofs, 
g, of four pointed rays, between which there are four bell-like 
foliages of the ftrongeft purple ; from the extremities of thefe foli- 
ages proceed rays of a faint purple diverging to the circumference. 
In the belly of the fame fiifh, Fig. x. there is a crofs-like opening 
made by the convention of four triangular mufcles, i ; and at each 
commiffure of thefe mufcles there is a fang or leg of the fame tranf- 
parent fubftance as the body ; with thefe legs, I apprehend they 
raife themfelves from, or flick clofe to, the place where they chufe 
to reft, reach, and convey the food to the mouth, ufe them as fins 
to fwim, or as legs to walk through the paths of the fea. 
Fig. xi. ibid, is another variety of the medufa’s, and differs from 
Fig. vii. before deferibed in the following particulars : It has no 
circular nucleus in the middle, but a feeded fpot only ; its rays are 
folid, and not divided into lines. I could perceive no hamous fangs 
at the limb \ its tentacula or legs, m being extended, fpread four- 
teen inches, as in Fig. xii. which is the under part of this medufa. 
Fig. xiii. is another variety : It has no colour but that of the 
pureft cryftal jelly, oval in figure, on the back it is convex, and 
on the under part, Fig. xiv. has four feparate cavities, but no fang, 
tentacle, or other projection. 
Fig. xv. is the belly view of another Urtica of the fame kind as 
the laft (as I imagine), but adult and perfedt, found on the Mount’s 
Bay fhore, Auguft 2, 1757, which I have never feen deferibed: Its 
brim much thinner than the other parts to further its motions, fcol- 
loped, edged with fang-like appendixes at the feveral protuberances, 
a b, and two others, (the reft probably broke off). The holes, cc, 
are the four mouths or inlets into the abdomen , fupplied with muf- 
cular excrefcencies which ferve to clofe them occafionally. It had 
eight legs, d d y all dependant from a ftem or ftalk, e : this ftem is 
2 Qi>. an Urtica aftrophyta Linntei, Syft. Nat. Spec. 4 Gen. Zoophy; page 237. 
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