A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . ^ LONG-ARMED RRITTLE-STAR. 45 OPIIIURIDJE. THE LONG-ARMED brachiata. Montagu. Specific Character.—Disk round, or subpentangular, notched, imbricated abovewith small smooth scales ; sides rough. Two oblong diverging plates oppositethe base of each ray. Rays very long. Upper ray-scales transversely oblong ;lateral ray-plates, each bearing eight or nine thick obtuse spines, which areshorter than the breadth of the ray. Astcrias brachiata, Montagu, Linn. Trans. VII. p. 84. Ophiura bra
A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . ^ LONG-ARMED RRITTLE-STAR. 45 OPIIIURIDJE. THE LONG-ARMED brachiata. Montagu. Specific Character.—Disk round, or subpentangular, notched, imbricated abovewith small smooth scales ; sides rough. Two oblong diverging plates oppositethe base of each ray. Rays very long. Upper ray-scales transversely oblong ;lateral ray-plates, each bearing eight or nine thick obtuse spines, which areshorter than the breadth of the ray. Astcrias brachiata, Montagu, Linn. Trans. VII. p. 84. Ophiura brachiata, Fleming, Brit. An. p. 488. Blainv. Man. dActin. p. 243. Among the most ardent investigators of the animals ofthe British seas, Colonel Montagu stands the discoveries of other sea-searching naturalistsare too often dubious and unsatisfactory, owing to the 46 imperfect descriptions they have transmitted of the sub-jects of their observations, there is no question about theidentity of any animal Montagu described. It is notmerely the copiousness of his descriptions which givesthem their pecul
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