C 22 3 
and this portion is the general one of the recent 
kinds. 
The recent Anomice have always a remarkably 
interior ilru8:ure :* as have the two fofEl ones 
Fig. 25* and 33, the former, though found 
near Bath, filled with a hard clay or with free¬ 
fone; is found in Horntor> quarry, Oxford- 
fiiire, filled with fpar; fom.etimes fhot into 
irregular figures, but for the moft part forked ; 
the bafis, or place where the branches of the 
fork are conjoyned, being rooted at the com- 
miffure or hinge of the valves, and the branches 
extending themfelves in the broader parts of 
fie fheljs.t 
FIG- XXXIII. 
Shells with many longitudinal folds, the mid¬ 
dle the largeft: hinge on a perfeQ; flrait line: 
beak of the lower yalve does pot curve oyer 
fie upper. 
Thy 
f Da Cofta’s Elements of Conchplogy. p, 258^ 
f Plot’s Nat. Hift. of pxfordfhire. p. log* 
