OF CORNWALL. 259 
Rondeletius, page 532 and 533, has given us (but very different 
from any here deicribcd) two of the V rtica fioluta , whence they 
are copied into Aldrovandus’s Table xvm. de Zoophytis, Natural 
Hiftory, page 187. Some call them Blobbcrs ; the Cornifh name 
is Morgoulis. 
Of the Stella marina , or ftar-fifh, Mr. Lhuyd found one near Stella mari- 
Penzance, which he calls Decempeda Cornubienfis . (Linckii Tabula £ or ftar ' 
xxxvii. N°. lxviJ. This is very rare ; for in Cornwall this animal ' 
has generally but live rays. Of this tribe we have varieties, as the 
Echinafter, or Stella coriacea pentadaSlyla echinata Luidii ; Linckii, 
Tab. iv. N\ vii. In this fort the briftles of the back are high and 
fpinous ; part of one (if I do not miftake) may be feen Plate xxv. 
Fig. xvm. The following fix are of different colours, the central 
boffes or fibula varioufly embroidered, and the rays of different 
workmanfhip. 
Fig. xix. ibid, is entire ; the Afierifcus, fieu Jlella marina pen- 
tadaElyla exigua lutea vulgaris , from the fea-fhore of Ludgvan ; 
the rays, when the fifh was firft taken up, extended five inches and 
a half, were ftiff and round, but by the next morning flatter, lank, 
and enervated, extending fix inches and a half in diameter ; ’in the 
under part a pentagonal nucleus occupied the centre, from each 
angle of which branched off a ridge of papilla pyramidales , with 
fharp horny points, running nearly in the middle of each ray ; the 
ground-colour was cinereous, tending to a purple ; the mammilla 
of a brick colour, the point of the rays a deep purple ; but when 
dead, of a brown yellow ; on the belly-part each fide of the rays 
had ftrong hard briffles fhooting tranfverfely, between which there 
was a great number of tranfparent, foft, flefhy tubes, or antenna 
with fmall knobs at the extremity, which began to move and exert 
themfelves, as foon as the fifli was laid on its back ; with its rays it 
crawls like a crab : the uppermoft briftles of the rays feem defigned 
for defence, and perhaps to aflift its motion j the antenna of the 
underpart (which it flioots forth and contraffs like the horns of a 
fnail ) ferve to move it to and fro ( perhaps to fee and reach its 
prey), and fix it alfo when and where it chufes to reft. 
In Fig. xx. the light parts are of a bright-yellow ocre, the dark 
part brown-red, of different degrees, intermixed and figured as in 
the plate ; the rays three inches long. 
In Fig. xxi. the fibula is of an olive green of different degrees ; 
the ftem of each ray is diftinguifhed by a lozenge, and ftudded ; 
that is, divided into fquare compartments, alternately red and Naples- 
yellow, twenty red fpots in each ray ; the rays two inches and a 
half long. 
In Fig. xxii. the fibula is of a black ground, ftriped with 
leaves 
