RADIATA. 
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summer. Purple specimens are rare. A small 
zoophite (?) is often found' at the anal aperture. 
Spatangus cordatus_ Sea heart . In sandy bays, 
as at Whitsand, and several situations along the 
eastern part of the Devon coast. I have it from 
the neighbourhood of the Erme. Not common. 
Spatangus purpureus.—Very rare. 
Echinocyamus pusillus_Thrown up in shallow 
bays. Dead specimens are very commonly found 
in sand towards the Land’s End. I have found it 
alive in crevices of stone taken up in Plymouth 
Sound. 
The Echinus subangularis though said to be 
common on the English coast has not occurred to 
me, but is included in Turton’s and Kingston’s list. 
ASTERIADiE. 
Asterias cartilaginea.—From deep water. Very 
rare. 
Asterias papposa.-Devon. (Turton and 
Kingston.) 
Asterias gibbosa.—Common in pools left by the 
tide at low water all round the coast, and frequently 
found hanging by a single sucker from pieces of 
sea-weed, &c. under rocks at low tides. 
Asterias equestris.—Found atTeignmouth. (See 
Magazine of Natural History.) 
Asterias rubens.—Rare. I have had but two 
specimens. 
Asterias glacialis.—Very common off the rocks. 
Caught much by crabbers and called Star-Jish. 
Feeds on shell-fish, such as rostellaria, &c. 
Ophiura granulata.—In vast quantities in Ply¬ 
mouth Sound in deep water, also at Teignmouth. 
Extremely fragile, very quick in its progressive 
motion, which it executes in a wriggling manner. 
Ophiura neglecta.—(Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. 8, p. 467) 
Mixed up with Corallina officinalis all round the 
