1823.] Linnean Transactions, Vol. XIV. Part 1. 389 



supremis integerrimis, radio caly6e paulo longiore, caule fruti- 

 coso. Chrysanthemum Indicum. Linn. Sp. PL vol. ii. 



p. 889. — ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 1253. Persoon Syn. vol. ii. p. 461. 

 Willd. Sp. PL vol. iii. p. 2147. Sabine in Trans. Hortic. Soc, 

 vol. iv. p. 326, cum figuris. Habitat in ChinS,. 



Chrysanthemum Sinense. 



C. foliis coriaceis petiolatis sinuato-pinnatifidis dentatis glau- 

 cescentibus, radio longissimo, caule fruticoso. Chinese Chry- 

 santhemum. Sabine in Trans. Hortic. Soc. vol. iv. p. 326. — 

 vol. V. p. 149. — in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. p. 561. Habitat 

 incultum in Japonia (Kccmpfer, Loureiro) ; cultum (multis varie- 

 tatibus) in hortis Sinarum atque Japonise. 



" I am aware that an objection may be urged to the specific 

 name I have applied to these plants, on the ground of their 

 being natives of Japan, and only known in China in the gardens. 

 But in reply to it, I should observe, that they werq originally 

 obtained from China, and we know it is in that country that 

 they have been brought to their present state of beauty and per- 

 fection : that for these reasons they are now known all over 

 Europe as the Chinese Chrysanthemums ; and that, as they have 

 hitherto been confounded with the C. Indicuniy it is very desi- 

 rable they should be distinguished by an appellation well opposed 

 to that of the other species." 



XJ. Descriptions of Seven new British Land and Fresh-water 

 Shellsy with Observations upon many other Species, including a 

 Lht of such as have been found in the County oj' Suffolk. By the 

 Rev. Revett Sheppard, FLS. 



The following are Mr. Sheppard's introductory remarks in this 

 paper : — 



" In the Descriptive Catalogue of British Tesfaceay published 

 by Dr. Maton and Mr. Rackett, in the eighth volume of the 

 Linnean Transactions, the habitats of the Land and Fresh-water 

 Shells having for the most part been confined to the midland 

 and western counties, I* have been induced to lay before the 

 Society a description of seven new species, and a list, with 

 copious observations, of the Land and Fresh-water Shells 

 hitherto discovered in the county of Suffolk, and Occasional 

 notices of places in which they have been found in Essex ; ^ by 

 which it will be seen, that the eastern parts also of this island 

 are equally fertile in those elegant and interesting productions of 

 Nature. The utility of such an undertaking seems to be gene- 

 rally allowed ; and should this humble attempt meet with appro- 

 bation from the lovers of conchology, I shall be amply gratified. 



" Although I have followed Linnseus's arrangement in prefer-' 

 ence to any other, from the opinion that the Land and Fresh-water 



♦ " ]VIy knowledge of Essex is confined to the hundred of Tcndring, a peninsula 

 formed by the German Ocean and the rivers Stour and Colfie." 



