124 CARDIUM. 



Cardium lineatum. Gmelin, p. 3246. Wood's Conch, p. 



239. 

 Cardium biradiatum. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 231. 

 Cardium laevigatum. Chemnitz, vi. p. 191. t. 18. f. 185 



and 186. 

 Cardium serratum. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 46. Gmelin, 



p. 3251. 

 Cardium, No. 2. Kammerer Cab. Rudolst. p. 210. t. 



12. f. 4. 

 Cardium maculosum. Woods Conch, p. 218. t. 52. f. 3. 

 Cardium laevigatum Var. £. Woods Conch, p. 222. 

 Cardium illitum. Solanders MSS. 

 Martyn. Univ. Conch, t. 146. Enc. Meth. t. 298. f. 6. 

 Inhabits the coasts of the Nicobar Islands. Chemnitz. Cey- 

 lon. Bruguiere. 

 Shell about two inches long, nineteen lines broad, and thirteen 

 high ; white, with large irregular orange, purplish, or tawny 

 spots, and marked in the inside, under the hinge, with two 

 oblong purple spots. It has about forty-eight, or fifty lon- 

 gitudinal stria? ; and from his description and reference to 

 Enc. Meth. t. 298. f. (i. Mr. Wood's C. maculosum ap- 

 pears to be at most only a variety, or perhaps a half grown 

 shell of this species. It may at once be known from young 

 shells of C. oblongum, by being much less ventricose, and 

 from those of C. Icevigatum, by its greater proportionate 

 length, nor do the longitudinal striae terminate so abruptly 

 at the anterior end, as in either of those species. 



serratum. 29. Shell ovate, ventricose, glabrous, 

 very minutely striated longitudinally, and the 

 inner margin serrated. 

 Cardium serratum. Linn&us Syst. Nat. p. 1123. Chem- 

 nitz,^, p. 193. t. 18. f. 189- 

 Cardium laevigatum. Born. Mus. p. 47- Schroeter Einl. 

 iii. p. 45. Gmelin, p. 3251. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. 

 p. 231. 

 Cardium citrinum. Woods Co?ich. p. 223. t. 54. f. 3. 

 Lister Conch, t. 249- f. 83. Gualter, t. 82. f. A. Knorr, 

 ii. t. 20. f. 4, v. t. 10. f. 7, and vi. t. 6. f. 1. 

 Inhabits the Mediterranean. Einnaus. West Indies, Hum- 

 phreys. Coasts of Carolina, Barbadoes, St. Domingo, and 

 Martinique. Bruguiere. Naples. Ulysses. 

 Shell about twenty-one lines long, nineteen broad, and fifteen 

 high ; thin, glabrous, yellowish, stained with orange, or 

 brownish purple about the apices and margin, and marked 



