106 The Shell-Collector’s Handbook. 
HELIX LAMELLATA, JEFF. 
SHELL conoid, globose, thin, transparent, yellowish horn- 
colour ; epidermis raised into numerous close-set. plaits ; 
whorls six, convex; spire slightly depressed, blunt ; suture 
deep; aperture crescent-shaped; umbilicus small, very 
deep. Diam. 23, alt. 2 mill. Animal yellowish-white, 
with the back of a slaty-grey and a mid-dorsal yellowish- 
white line. 
Habitat.—W oods and groves. 
HELIX ACULEATA, MULLER. 
SHELL very small, conical, globose, brownish horn- 
coloured ; epidermis raised into numerous plaits, which in 
the middle of each whorl become produced into spinous 
points; whorls four to four and a half, convex; aperture 
nearly semi-circular; umbilicus small. Diam. 23, alt. 22 
mill. Body varying in colour from slaty to pale-brown. 
Habitat.—Woods and hedgerows, among moss and 
decaying leaves. 
v. albida (Jeff.): Shell of a whitish colour. (B. C. vol. 
ap. 1.76). 
HELIX POMATIA, LINN. 
SHELL very large, globose, ventricose, obliquely striated, 
strong, whitish-yellow, banded with pale brown; whorls 
four to five, the body-whorl occupying two-thirds of the 
shell; spire short, blunt; aperture roundish, lunate ; 
inner lip reflected; umbilicus very narrow. Diam. maj. 
