2 6o NATURAL HISTORY 
leaves of a bell-like figure, with milk-white pointed javelins at the 
infertion of the rays which are of a brown, fpeckled green ; the ftem 
marked with tranfverfe lines; rays three inches long. One of this fort 
(that is, with leaves of the jibula lhaped in like manner) has a yellow 
fibula ; but the Hem of the radius is diverfified by fquare compart- 
ments, as in Fig. xxi ; rays two inches and a half long : A third 
has no javelins at the infertion, but the bell-like leaves with a 
whitifh nucleus in the centre, and the Hem of the ray cut into fquares 
of the richeft fcarlet intermixed with green ; rays three inches long. 
In Fig. xxm. the fibula is black, pentagonal, interfered by five 
white flips (of the figure of a Lens) running from the ftem of the 
ray to the central nucleus ; the rays of an olive green, ftudded with 
dies of a darker colour. In Fig. xxiv. the fibula confifts of five 
petals only, the outer edge of which is a brown Cologn-earth, 
lightning into a yellow in the middle ; the rays are diftinguifhed by 
two rowes of dies, one on each fide of the ftem, the dies oppofite, 
and of a dark green ; another with like rays has the XX&s fibula, but 
of a fky-blue colour ; rarely met with. 
Fig. xxv. is the back of a Stella ?narina fiaxis mfixa. Fig. XXVI. 
the belly-part of the lame with which it flicks to the rocks ; it was 
of a flefh-colour ; they are all of the fame fize I found them on 
Careg-killas near Penzance, October 8, 1756- Some other little 
differences occurred; butthele are lufficient to intimate what diver- 
fity of colourings and workmanfhip may be met with in this tribe. 
On the fhores of Mount’s Bay we frequently find the cuttle-bone 
of the fepia or cuttle-filh, or ink-filh, by which it appears that the 
fepia of Rondeletius, page 498, though reckoned rare on the Eng- 
lilh coaft, is not fo uncommon on the fhores of Cornwall : Its bone 
is uled by the filverlmiths in polifhing, and fometimes admitted into 
the {hops among tooth-powders, &c. Galen and others think theie 
loft fifli very nourifhing, eafy of digeftion, and great attenuators of 
the blood a . 
Fig. xxvil. Plate XXV. is the Loligo b found in Mount’s Bay 
1757 ; and being a fair entire fpecimen of this uncommon animal, 
I add the following defcription : The body is eleven inches long, 
compreffed, one inch and a half thick, fpreading on each fide into 
a thin, triangular, flefhy fubftance, a a , which ferve as fins in water, 
and as wings in air; the tail much more obtufe than that of 
Rondeletius page 508; the head, c , is globular, one inch and a 
half high ; it had ten tentacles, d d, of various lengths ; the two 
longeft, e e, are pedunculated, not extended to their full length, 
their Items round, and near the extremities their upper fide fpread 
» Rondel, chap. Ii. lib. xvii, b Loligo minor Rondel, page 508. Salviani major Aldrov. 
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