PLACE OF CRINOIDEANS. 417 
limestone near Bristol, are well known examples 
strata thus composed ; and shew how largely 
^he bodies of Animals have occasionally con- 
^•’ibuted by their remains, to swell the Volume of 
*^iaterials that now compose the mineral world. 
The fossil remains of this order have been long 
'nown by the name of Stone Lilies, or Encrinites, 
have lately been classed under a separate 
•^rder by the name of Crinoi'dea. 
This order comprehends many Genera and 
^^urnerous Species, and is ranged by Cuvier after 
Asteriae, in the division Zoophytes. IVearly 
these species appear to have been attached to 
bottom of the Sea, or to floating extraneous 
bodies.* 
The two most remarkable Genera of this family 
lave been long known to Naturalists by the 
These animals form the subject of an elaborate and excellent 
by Mr. Miller, entitled a Natural History of the Crinoi'dea, 
Lily-shaped Animals. The representations at PI. 48, and PI. 
> Pig. 1. of one of the most characteristic species of this 
^mdy, being that to which the name of stone-lily was first ap- 
: and the figures of two other species at PI. 47, Fig. 1, 2, 5, 
exemplify the following definition given of them by Mr. 
^ ' br. » An Animal with a round, oval, or angular column, 
^^mposed of numerous articulating joints, supporting at its 
a series of plates, or joints, which form a cup-like body, 
j ** ^'ning the viscera, from whose upper rim proceed five articu- 
dividing into tentaculated fingers, more or less nume- 
^ surrounding the aperture of the mouth, (PI. 47. Figs. 6, x. 
ove ^ in the centre of a plated integument, which extends 
: ^ abdominal cavity, and is capable of being contracted 
^ s. conical or proboscal shape.” 
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