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detached stelliform fossils, about the size of a lentil, which are found 
in St. Peter’s mountain, near Maestricht. Recueil des Monum. Tom. 
ii. p. 262. The body of this animal appears to have been of a 
spherical form, and large in proportion to the length of its rays, 
which are conical, and vary in their number, from four or five to six 
or nine. The body, as well as the rays, are beset with tubercles. 
10. Stella crinita, decacnemos rosacea, Linck. Tab. xxxvn. No. 
66, is figured as a fossil by Baier, Oryct. Norte. Tab. vm. No. 5 ; 
and by Knorr, Recueil des Monumens, Plate VII. Fig. 6. 
11. Stella decacnemos, barbata, Linclc. Tab. xxxvn. A r o. 64, 
appears also to be figured as a fossil by Baier, Monim. Rer. Petr. 
Tab. vn. No. 2, 4, and 5 ; and in Oryctogr. Noric. Tab. vm. Fig. 4. 
12. Stella crinita polycacnemos, the Caput Medusce of Linck; 
Linck. Tab. xxi. et xxn. Gesner, I)e Petrijicatis, p. 31, mentions 
a fossil , which he supposes to be a fragment of this species ; and of 
which, it appears, that fragments only have been found. 
13. Astrophyton, of Linck ; or Caput Medusce of Rumphius ; 
Cabinet des Raretds d’ Amboine, Tab. xvi. Gesner, L)e Petrijicatis, 
p. 31. speaks of fossil fragments of this animal having also been 
repeatedly found. This he repeats on the authority of Lhwydd, who 
names a fossil (No. 1132) of this kind, Astropodium Rat no mm ; and 
on that of the intelligent Rosinus, who also figur es (Prodro m us , Sfc. 
Tab. x. Fig. n. Ah. l.J what he supposes to be a fossil of this kind. 
Gesner, however, did not advert to the circumstance of both Lhwydd 
and Rosinus having written before the period at which the penta- 
crinites were discovered. An inspection of the figures given by 
Lhwydd and by Rosinus will directly show, that the fossils which 
they have figured are undoubtedly parts of pentacrinites. 
Mr. Knorr, Sup. Tab. vi. 8—1/, figures various small fossil 
bodies, which he learned came from some part of Italy, and which he 
considers as belonging to the Stellce Jissce of Lmck ; but acknowledges 
that, even with the microscope, he was unable to discover the 
