Observations on marine vermes, insects, &c. Fasciculus I / by Matthew Martin ; with notes and quotations from different authors.

  • Martin, Matthew.
Date:
1786
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Credit: Observations on marine vermes, insects, &c. Fasciculus I / by Matthew Martin ; with notes and quotations from different authors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OBSERVATIONS O N Marine Vermes, Insects, &c. No. I. V. T A B. I, FIG. 1. * § A C T I N I A. Caryo- — A. dianthoideS, rubro-fufca; fcHYLLus, flore pleno. An Dianthi Varietas ? SEA-FLOWER. Clove.— S.-F. Like the Diatithus, ted- brown; with a double flower. Is it a variety of the Di~ V anthus ? iC ■ AS many who have not vifited the Sea Coafts, are unacquainted with this race of Animals, it may not be amifs to mention a few particulars coji- cerning them. I fuppofe the name Actinia is derived from the Greek word ‘’A-KTi'N, which hgnifies a ray; and has been given tb them, on account of their numerous divergent tentacula r and' that their ftrong refemblance to a flower, when thefe B V . tentacula ' ■ i * V. Apology in Preface. , § The Actinia are ranltedin the Sy&em, in the Vlt-h Clafs of Animals, Viz. Vermes, and jn theIld. Order, Mollusca. C L J S S I S VL Vermes. TARDIGRADA, mollia, pandentia, vivaciflima, redintegranda, humidi Animantia, acefhala, apoda, androgyna, TentacuHs dignofeenda. IMPERFECTA veteribus, nec inepte, difta ani^ mantia, deftituuntur Capite, Auribus, Nafo, OcuHs pleraque, Pedibus, ab Infedlis itaqae diverfifllma, a qiribus dudum removi natura; cryptogama : funt Intef- Una, Mollufca, Tejiacea, Litbophyta, Zoophyta^ CLASS FL W o R M S -. Slow of motion, foft, expanfive, tenacious of life, from parts becoming whole, Enliveners ofmoiftplaces, without head, without feet, androgynous, dinin'^ guilhable by their tentacula. By the Ancients, not without fome (tho'fal/e) ap- pearance of grounds, reputed imperfed: Animals; being deftituteofHead, Nofe, and moftly of Eyes, and Feet ; very different therefore from Infedls, from which 1 have lately diftinguiflied thefe fubjedls of fe- cret, myfterious generation. They are, l.Gittfhaped, II. Soft, III. SbeI/-vjorms, IF. Lithophytes, F. Zoo- phytes, - - - _ _