HELIX HORTENSIS. 365 
SWITZERLAND. 
Dispersed throughout the whole country north of the Alps; it is on record for 
the cantons of Aargau, Appenzell, Basle, Berne, Geneva, Glarus, Grisons, Lucerne, 
pannel St. Gall, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn, Thurgau, Uri, U nterwalden, 
Valais, Vaud, Zurich, and according to M. Roffiaen is found at Magadino in 
Canton Ticino. 
SCANDINAVIA. 
Norway—Extends to 64° north lat., according to Milachevich. It is reported as 
widely distributed in Christiania province, but not often numerous, though abounding 
in the garden and park at Jarlsbere. Tt is found about Bergen and the Hardanger, 
Aalesund in Romsdal, and about 'Trondhjem., 
Sweden--It is more generally diffused than //. nemoralis, and is found in Skane, 
Malmohus, Nerike, Westergotland, and about Stoekholm, and extends as far north 
as Oviken in Jemtland, where it is considered as a relict, its presence being 
regarded by Herr Hiige as evidence of a warmer climate in early quaternary times. 
Denmark— Found | throughout Denmark, but is less common than //. nemoralis. 
It is also recorded from the Island of Bornholim. 
Iceland—Recorded from Iceland by Dr. O. A. L. Mirch, the specimens, according 
to Prof. Sandberger, belonging to the var. ludoviciana, but no recent records are 
available, the specimens recorded by Mr. Gratacap as found at Seydisfiord proving 
to be Helicigona arbustorwn. 
R USSIA . 
Inhabits the Baltic provinces, and has been reported from some of the provinces 
of South Russia, perhaps confused with the albolabiate form of H. nemoralis, which 
is frequently the most plentiful form at the confines of its range. 
It is reported from Poland, Volhynia, Kovno, Courland, Livland, Esthland, 
Ingermanland, South Finland, and the Aland Isles. 
The southern provinces from which it is reported by Kaleniezenko and others 
are Podolia, Kursk, Kharkov, and Taurida. 
NEARCTIC REGION. 
DANISH AMERICA. 
Greenland— Reported as an inhabitant of Greenland ; the record, however, rests 
upon asingle dead shell received from Greenland by Dr. March about 1844, which 
he himself thought was probably introduced, and upou a manuseript of Dr. Beck, 
in which he says :—‘‘ Wormskiold has told me that he has found on the leaves of 
the small shrubs of Salix danatus, in the vicinity of the interior of the Gulf of 
Tealiko, a small banded snail, not unlike our garden snail.’ 
CANADA. 
In Canada this species is at the present time strictly confined to the eastern 
regions, and has been noted from the provinces of Quebec, Labrador, Nova Scotia, 
New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island. 
Quebec—In this province it was first recorded in 1829 by Mrs. Sheppard as com- 
mon in spring on a bank near the Plains of Abraham, Quebee ; Mr. F. R. Latchford 
notes it from the citadel of that town; and Mr. J. E. de Kay in 1843 reeorded that 
Col. Totten found H. subglobosa near the shores of the St. Lawrence, two hundred 
miles below Quebee. 
On the Gaspé Peninsula it is a common shell at many points, the yellow and 
banded varieties being about eo numerous, Mr. G. H. Clapp reporting the 
formule 12345, 123(45), “(123)(4: 5), 1(234)5, (12345), and 00000 as obtained from Gaspé. 
According to Mr. RK. Bell, jun. (Canad, ‘Nat., 1859, p. 215), it was first observed on 
the mainland on Mount Commis, about nine miles south of St. Luce, and on the 
coast at Métis, and also further down the river; it was very abundant, and much 
more numerous than //. ¢/bolabris, whose place it seemed to oceupy. In the Valley 
of Marcouin //. hortensis extends twelve miles inland, attaining an altitude of 1,500 
feet, and where the land has been recently cleared and burnt over, their eae ‘el 
shells may be seen strewn in thousands over the surface of the ‘soil. Dr. J. M. 
Clarke found it very common on the limestone area at Peree; and Mr. Hanham 
found that, though generally buried in sand, it was very common on the hillside 
at Barachois, the unicolorous form being the most plentiful, though the formnla 
(12345) was also met with. According to his information, it extends as far up the 
fiver St. Lawrence as the Little Métis River. 
