Archive image from page 383 of Cuvier's animal kingdom arranged. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization cuviersanimalkin00cuvi Year: 1840 372 MOLLUSC A. obsen'able in the two valves.] The lare species of our coasts {Oslrea maxima, Linn.), is the Pilgrim's shell, [worn in front of the hat by those who had visited the shrine of St. James in the Holy Land.] It is eaten. The Limse {Lima, Rruaf.) differ from the Pectens in having' a more elongated shell, with shorter ears, and a greater inequality of the sides. The majority have the ribs raised into scales. The valves c
Archive image from page 383 of Cuvier's animal kingdom arranged. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization cuviersanimalkin00cuvi Year: 1840 372 MOLLUSC A. obsen'able in the two valves.] The lare species of our coasts {Oslrea maxima, Linn.), is the Pilgrim's shell, [worn in front of the hat by those who had visited the shrine of St. James in the Holy Land.] It is eaten. The Limse {Lima, Rruaf.) differ from the Pectens in having' a more elongated shell, with shorter ears, and a greater inequality of the sides. The majority have the ribs raised into scales. The valves cannot be closed in tht; living state, and the cloak is ornamented with a vast number of filaments of difi'erent lengths, without tubercles ; and further within there is a broad fold which closes the gape of the shell, and even forms a protuberant veil. The foot is small, and the byssus inconsiderable. The Limre swim rapidly, by flapping their valves. One species in the Mediterranean, of a pure white colour (Ostrea Lima, Linn.), is eaten. Pedum, Brug.—The shell is similar to Lima, but the valves are uneinial, and the most convex only has a deep sinus for the byssus. Tlie animal also is very like that of Lima, but its cloak has only a single row of small slender tentacula. Its byssus is larger. The one species known is from the Indian sea. Certain fossils may be placed here which have the hinge, ligament, and central muscle of the Ostrere, Pectines, and Limfe, but are distinguished by some peculiarities of the shell. The Hiniiifes, Uefr., seem to be Oysters, or Clams, with small ears and adherent shells, irregular and very thick, especially the convex valve. Tliere is a fossa at the hinge for the ligament. (Four recent species of this genus have been described.) The Plagiostomes, Sower., have the oblique shell of the Lima', flattened on one side, very minute ears, the valves more ventricose, striated, without scales, and the outlft of the byssus less. They are found in formatio
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