88 Dr. Lavnam’s. Obfervations on the Spinning Liman, 
Nature of Linneus, p..3101. Limax albus clypeo flavefcente. Lifter.has 
figured it, not inaccurately, both in, his Animal.. Anglia, p. 130 
tab. 2 f- 16. as well.as,in his Synopfis Method. Conch. \as -one’ of his 
Cochlec nude terrepres, fee, tabs 101. Ai: but both figures feem to cor 
ae{pond | with the plain. fortes i in which the fhield, and body) do not 
differ in colour; for he mames it, L. cinereus parvus immaculatus. 
However he is filent:in réfpeét to. the faculty, in this identical: {pe- 
cies,|.of {pinning.a-thread,, although he has noticed the circum- 
‘tance, in the Limaw, cineraus of, uinnzus, \ which he names'Z. cinereus 
ynaxinus, friatus & maculatus, pi 147. t 2 fe.15»{(theyfame figured in 
his Synoffis,| tab; 104.,a.,f.,d.) and, delivers, his fentiments,. at p. 1305 
in the following words: ‘‘ Eofdem Limaces alio tempore circa men- 
“ fem Junium in fylvis opacis obfervavi, ex’arborum ramis demif- 
fos, fingulos fingulis furiibus bipedalibus craflis & walidis fatis ) at * 
“ e propria faliva confectis... Eft fané magna affinitas inter| humo- 
§ rem illum e quo araneorum ise ce fila. ae ie neat 
“ animalium faliyam.”) 9 : bala ¥e Y 
An. refpect to the quantity of alatindns matter. fafbbtett Son the 
purpiofe of fufpenfion, according to Swammerdam the texture.of the 
whole furface of the body. is more or lefs difpofed to furnith it *; 
but, by the above obfervations, we find that the glands of the’ belly 
and under parts are thofe,which’ are materially, fubfervient thereto. 
> Bibl. "Nature; part I. rd: I: neahe 6. where he faye: “© After what manner the fimy 
« humour diftils from the glands of the fkin, may be feen in this manner: The fkin muft 
«be wiped with fpongy blotting ‘paper until none of the flimy humour is feen, or till the 
«!whole is cleared off; then the fkin muft be:taken between the fingers and prefled 
« gently; and if this be done undera microfcope, the flimy humour will be feen to. come 
* out infenfi ibly f from the glandular pores of the fkin.like clear and minute points: thefe, 
« re by‘ continuing the preffaure, will become final drops; ; and thefe, in fome time, ‘gather- 
“Sng together, Al form’a conliderable ‘olleAion of this matter ; fo that the whole fkin 
s¢ willbe moiftened and become glutinous.” \ See Book of Nature, part 1, p.54.( Engl. 
Tran/l. } : ey ¢ 
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