106 HELICID^. 



selves ill the fields and hedges, the Sunday before 

 the feast day. 



35. 2. Helix hortensis. Garden Snail. — Shell 

 somewhat globular, thin, smooth, yellow or 

 brown, uniform or banded ; mouth roundish 

 lunate, depressed, with the peristome white, 

 (t. 3. f. 24.) 



Helix hortensis. Lister, Conch, t. 3. f. 3. ; Linn. (?) ; Mtiller, 

 Verm. ii. 52.; Drap. p. 95. tab. 6. f. 6.; Brard, j). 16. tab. 

 1. f. 3. ; Montagu, p. 412. ; Jeffreys, Linn. Trans, xvi. 330.; 

 Alder, M. Z. and B. ii. 106.'; Turton, Mann. 34. f. 24. — 

 Tacliea hortensis. Leach, Syn. Moll. 62. — Cochlea fasciata. 

 Da Costa, p. 76. t. 5. f. 4, 5. — Helix nemoralis var. Ma- 

 ton and jRachci, Linn. Trans, viii. 206. ; Dillw. Cat. ii. 942. ; 

 Ivories and Hanley, B. M. iv. Hi. 



Inhab. woods, hedges, and wet shady places. 



Animal reddish, yellowish, or pale grey ; tentacles 

 generally dark grey. (^Sturm, t. 22.) Jaw strong, 

 costated in front, edge toothed. 



Shell about a fourth part smaller than //. nemoralis, 

 which in colour and varieties it much resembles, but 

 is distinguished by its smaller size, in not being quite 

 so convex, in being more polished and thinner, and 

 in the white margin round the aperture. 



Like many other snails, it offers the following 

 monstrosities: — 1. In the whorls being reversed. 

 {Fcrus. t. 36. f. 10.) 2. And in the whole of the 

 spires being more or less separated from each other. 

 {Ferus. Hist. t. 36. f. 11, 12.) 



In the Annals of Philosophy for 1825, p. 152., I 

 observed that there was a difference in the form of 

 that part of the generative organs of Helix nemoralis 



