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1 2 "The Hiflory of ANIMALS* 
Brachionus corpore latiore inf erne lunulato. 
The Brachionus , with a broader body lunulated in if s lower part . 
This is alfo one of the minuted: of the Animalcule clafs: it’s body is equal in breadth 
to it’s length ; it’s form is not equally didended into a roundnefs, but flattifh. It’s 
mouth has a very large opening, and there are two of the apparatus’s of arms lodged in it, 
each confuting of fix, as in the others, and ufed for the fame purpofes. The lower 
part of the body is lunated, or formed into a kind of crefcent, the horns of which are 
very long and point downwards; from the midft of the body, between thefe, there 
arifes a fhort tail; it is forked at the extremity, and is in continual motion. The 
whole creature is perfe&ly pellucid, and of a faint greenifh colour : It feems indeed 
like the lad, but compofed of a more delicate membrane inclofing the intedines, and 
a clear fluid about them, feeming the fame with the circumambient water. All thefe 
fpecies, when hungry, vibrate their arms, as defcribed under the firffc of them, and by 
this means form a current of water, which brings with it the defencelefs, and yet more 
minute, Animalcules into their mouths. 
This fpecies is frequent in ponds in autumn : the green fcum, which is often driven 
by the winds at that feafon to the fhores, contains multitudes of them. 
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