CARDIUM. 15 



producing a wholesome and savoury dish. The inhabitants 

 call them red noses''' (Turton). The loose valves are scat- 

 tered along the Cornish shores, and in some places in 

 abundance, as in Lantivet Bay, east of Fowey (Couch). 



It is essentially a southern species, and ranges to the 

 Canaries. 



C. EDULK, Linneeus. 



Neither triangular, nor porcelain white ; with radiating ribs, 

 which are neither armed with spines nor tubercles. 



Plate XXXII. Fig. 1 to 4, and (animal) Plate N. Fig. 5. 



Lister, Hist. Conch, pi. 334, f. 171. 



Cardium cdule, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 1124. — Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iv. p. 



91, pi. 50, f. 41, — PuLTENEY, Hutchins, Hist. Dorset, p. 30. — 



DoNOV. Brit. Shells, vol. iv. p. 124, f. 1.— Mont. Test. Brit. 



p. 76. — Linn. Trans, vol. viii. p. 65. — Dorset Catalog, p. 32, 



pi. II, f. 1.— TuKT. Conch. Diction, p. 30.— Turt. Dithyra 



Brit. p. 188. — Flem. Brit. Anim. p. 422. — Couch, Cornish 



Fauna, part ii. p. 28. — Macgilliv. Moll. Aljerd. p. 272. — 



Brit. Marine Conch, p. 97. — Brown, Illust. Conch. G. B. p. 



87, pi. 35, f. 1 to C— Chemn. Conch. Cab. vol. vi. p. 198, 



pi. 19, f. 194.— Wood, General Conch, p. 226, pi. 55, f. 4.— 



DiLLW. Recent Shells, vol. i. p. 127. — Lam. Anim. s. Vert. 



(ed. Desh.) vol. vi. p. 406. — Index Testaceolog. pi. 5, f. 26. — 



Rees' Cyclopedia, pi. 5. — Cuv. Regne Animal (ed. Croch.), 



pi. 99, f. 4.— Hanl. Recent Shells, vol. i. p. 134, pi. 5, f. 26. 



— Reeve, Conch. Iconica, Cardium, pi. 4, f. 22. 



,, vulffcire, Da Costa, Brit. Conch, p. 180, pi. 1 1, f. I. 



„ crenulatimi. Lam. Anim. s. Vert. (ed. Desh.) vol. vi. p. 407. — Deles. 



Rec. Coquilles, pi. 11, f. 5. — Reeve, Conch. Iconica, 



Cardium, pi. 20, f. 1 1 2. 



„ pcctinatum, Lam. Anim. s. Vert. (ed. Desh.) vol. vi. p. 405. — Hanl. 



Recent Shells, vol. i. p. 1 34, 

 „ arcuatum. Reeve (not Mont.), Conch. Icon. Cardium, pi. 22, f. 33. 

 „ zonatum. Brown, Illust. Conch. G. B. p. 88, pi. 35, f. 8. 

 „ ohliquum, Woodward, Geol. Norf. pi. ii. f. 19 (fossil). 

 Encyclop. Method. Vers, pi. 300, f. 5. 



So different is the outline of the aged Cockle from that of 

 the nearly mature one, that, in despite of the extreme com- 



