The Shell-Collector’s Handbook. 14] 
CARYCHIUM MINIMUM, MULLER. 
SHELL fusiform, oblong, glossy, finely striated transversely, 
white ; whorls five to five and a half, convex, body-whor] 
comprising nearly one-half of the shell; spire with an 
acute apex; suture deepish: aperture auriculate, with 
three denticles—one on the columella, one on the inside of 
the outer lip, and the third on the centre of the penulti- 
mate whorl; peristome thick, reflected; umbilical chink 
oblique. Animal  yellowish-white, bilobed in front, 
rounded behind. 
Habitat.—Among decaying leaves and moss, under 
stones in moist situations. 
