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Observation. 
Lamarck describes a small Comatula as C. fimbriata, found by M. Perron 
and LE SUEUR in the eastern seas, stating that it somewhat resembles the Stella 
Barbata of Lixkius, t. 37. No. 64. PENNANT quotes the same figure for his ` 
Asterias decacnemos, but in his representation (Pr. XXV.) does not express 
the fimbriated membrane, nor does his figure show the organic detail correctly: 
he also represents a pentagonal mouth which I could not detect in my dried | 
specimens; hence ፪ do not know how far those figures and quotations afford 
synonymes or reference. l 

A species of Comatula appears to occur in the Solenhofe slate, it has been 
figured by Knorr (P.u. L. 1.) and by von Scntoruerm in his Petrefactenkunde, 
as Ophiurites pennatus, p. 28. (fig. 1. and 2.) but neither of these figures exhibit 
that accurate attention to organic formation, which alone can enable us to 
furnish a specific character. ; | 









