A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . £5Cd8P COMMON rubens. Lin. Ag. ^>ecj^e Character.—Rays about three and a half times as long as the disk isbroad, rounded, very spiny. Avenues lanceolate. Asterias rubens, Linn. 1099, Fabr. Fauna Groen. p. 369. Muller, Zool. Dan. Prod. p. 2830. Lam. 1 Edit. II. p. 562 ; 2 Edit. III. p. 160. Man. dActin. p, 239, pi. xxii. A. B. Baster, t. xii. tig. 1-4. Link, pi. vii. fig. 9 ; pi. xi. fig. 15 ; pi. xiv. fig. 23 ; pi. xv. and xvi. fig. 18 ; pi. xxx. fig. 50 ; pi. xxxiv. and xxxv. fig. 58


A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . £5Cd8P COMMON rubens. Lin. Ag. ^>ecj^e Character.—Rays about three and a half times as long as the disk isbroad, rounded, very spiny. Avenues lanceolate. Asterias rubens, Linn. 1099, Fabr. Fauna Groen. p. 369. Muller, Zool. Dan. Prod. p. 2830. Lam. 1 Edit. II. p. 562 ; 2 Edit. III. p. 160. Man. dActin. p, 239, pi. xxii. A. B. Baster, t. xii. tig. 1-4. Link, pi. vii. fig. 9 ; pi. xi. fig. 15 ; pi. xiv. fig. 23 ; pi. xv. and xvi. fig. 18 ; pi. xxx. fig. 50 ; pi. xxxiv. and xxxv. fig. 58 ; pi. xxxvi. fig. 67 ; pi. xl. fig. 70. Enc. pi. cxiii. f. 1,2; pi. cxii. f. 3, glaciates, Penn. Brit. Zool. IV. p. 60, No. 54. Fleming, Brit. An. p. 487. Couch, Cornish Fauna. Hogg, Stockton-on-Tees-Asterias clafhrata, Penn. Brit. Zool. IV. p. 61, No. 55. {Junior.)Stelloniu riibens, Agaz. Prod. Forbes, Wern. Mem. VIII. p. 121. g2 84 URASTERIyE. The Common Crossfish has generally five rays, occa-sionally six, and not nnfreqnently as few as four. Therays are rou


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