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EDIBLE BRITISH MOLLUSKS. 



list of Church ornaments in the 



fifteenth century, 112. 

 Baptismal shells, usually of silver 



gilt, but real scallop-shells used 



in some churches, 112. 

 Baptism, in private, a wooden shell 



used, 112. 

 Barrois, escargotiere in, 12. 

 Baskets-full of razor-shells sold at 



Tenby, 41. 

 Beira, or great scallop (Pecten 



maximus), 101. 

 Belief in the power of the bones 



of St. James to work miracles 



nearly died out, 111. 

 Berizon, or cockle, 27. 

 Bernicle, 121. 

 Bigorneau, 135. 

 Billingsgate Market supplied with 



mussels from Holland, etc., 47. 

 Birds feed on snails, 9. 

 Bishop Mayhew, 108. 

 Bisse del legno, 159. 

 Black cockle, 44. 

 Blackfish or Tintenfisch, 164. 

 Bohrmuschel or Steinbohrer, 159. 

 Bouchots, or artificial mussel beds, 



46. 

 Bouger's huge cuttle-fish, 169. 

 Boyl-yas, or native sorcerer, 63. 

 Brading and its oysters, 73. 

 Breeding pearls, 30. 

 Bridge at Bideford, 48. 

 British localities for Solen margi- 



natus, 39. 

 British oyster valued by the Bo- 

 mans, 68. 

 British specimen of Helix aperta, 



15. 

 Brown oyster sauce, 86. 

 Bruvane, 27. 

 Bucarde, 27. 



Buccinum, used for bait for long- 

 line fishing, 124. 

 Buccinum undatum, 123. 

 Buccinum, or whelk, carved on 



font in St. Clement's Church, 



Sandwich, 133. 

 Buccin oncle, 123. 

 Buckie, whelk-tingle or sting- 

 . winkle, 124. 



Burran Bank oysters, 74. 

 Burton Bindons, oysters called, 74. 

 Butterfish, price of, 143. 

 Butterfish, or Purr, 143. 



Byssus of mussels, 48. 



Csesar and the pearls of Great 



Britain, 55. 

 Caesar, Julius, prohibits unmarried 



women to wear pearls and pur- 

 ple, 57. 

 Csesar, Julius, first wore the toga 



entirely of purple, 132. 

 Cagouille, 14. 

 Calmar, 171. 



Calamares eaten in Spain, 174. 

 Calamaretto, or Seppietta, 173. 

 Calcined mussel-shells make strong 



lime, 49. 

 Canestrelli di mare, or Pecten 



varius, 99. 

 Caperlongers, 138. 

 Cappa di San Griacomo, 101. 

 Cappa Santa, 101. 

 Cappa tonda, 39. 

 Caracola, 19. 

 Caracola del huerta, 19. 

 Caracola del mar, 19. 

 Caracola del rio, 19. 

 Caracoleros, 19. 

 Caracoles con Perejil, 23. 

 Caragoou, 14. 

 Caraguolo, 14. 

 Cardiadaj, 27. 

 Cardium aculeatum found on the 



Devonshire coast, 38. 

 Cardium edule, 27. 

 Cardium rusticum, 36. 

 Cardium rusticum or tubercula- 

 tum, found at Paignton and 



Dawlish, 37. 

 Cardium rusticum, its leaping 



powers described by Mr. Gosse, 



37. 

 Carlingford oysters, 74. 

 Carrickfergus oysters, large size, 



74. 

 Cathedral at Panama, the steeples 



faced with pearl oyster shells, 



116. 

 Catherine de Medicis, 58. 



