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fame manner. Thofe are to be placed in 

 their refpeilive families, and not here folely 

 on that account. 



Lifter and Linnaeus are the only authors 

 who have ranged any Shells by this fubor- 

 dinate charadler. It is Lifter's feftion xi. 

 of lib. IV. Buccina columella dentata j 

 but he has cot only arranged the Buccina 

 therein, but likewife all other Shells whole 

 pillars are pleated. 



Linnaeus has done the fame ; and from 

 this fingle charafter of columella plicata^ 

 he has formed the genus he calls Voluta ; 

 in which not only Buccina are included, 

 but alfo Olives, fome Murices or Rocks, 

 the Perfian Crowns, Midas's Ear, and 

 other Shells of different families, pell- 

 mell, or confufedly intermixed. 



The fixth and laft genus includes the 

 Strombi, or Buccina with an exceeding 

 long and very taper clavicle or turban. 



They 



