HELIX HORTENSIS. BOT 
Connecticut — The Connecticut record is lased entirely upon its inelusion in 
Linsley’s Catalogue of the Shells of Connecticut, published in 1845, in which the 
species is reported as ‘ Helix subglobose (2) Binney, Weston, Gould, 172,°; according 
to Mr. ©. W. Johnson this record must be regarded as very doubtful. 
Massachusetts—In 1837 Mr. Amos Binney recorded the ‘‘ olivaceous yellow ” 
bandless variety, Helix subglobosa, as common on the lower parts of Cape Cod and 
Cape Ann, also as abundant and the sole variety living on Salt Island, a rocky unin- 
habited islet near Gloucester, but in 1851 he reported that banded varieties had 
appeared and were not uncommon there. 
Binney and Bland described it as existing in countless numbers on the soil and 
shrubs of some of the islands in the vicinity of Cape Ann. 
Mr. J. H. Thomson in 1885 records finding the var. dv/ea@ in large numbers near 
Gay Head on the Island of Martha’s Vineyard, but never on the mainland, although 
he unsuccessfully tried to establish the species in his garden at New Bedford. Mr. 
C. W. Johnson, however, states that it is found on the mainland at Manchester, 
Magnolia, Gloucester, Rockport, and abundantly on the steep bluffs by the light- 
house at Chatham, in which loeality all the specimens belonged to the sub-var. 
subalbida, 
Mr. J. Ritehie cites Cambridge as a loeality on the authority of specimens in 
the Whittemore Collection ; and Mr. F. N. Balch has found it near Orleans, 
The var. Jutea has been found by Mr. Thaxter at Provincetown, and the light 
yellow sub-variety (probably the var. /ufescens Schmidt) among cedars near “ Old 
Harbour,” Cohasset, by Mr. A. P. Morse. 
It was also enumerated in 1853 by Mr. 8S. Tufts, jun., in his ‘ List of Shells 
collected at Swampscot, Lynn, and Vicinity.” 
On the islands off the coast, Dr. Gould in 1851 recorded it as found abundantly 
by Dr. Cabot on House Island near Manchester, and Outer Gooseberry Island, each 
island possessing its own distinctively fasciate variety. In 1870 Dr. Pilsbry reported 
the species from New Bedford and Marblehead ; the var. du¢éea and its four and 
five-banded sub-varieties with the var. arenicola 12345, from the Island of Nan- 
tucket, at Sciasconset, on the authority of Dr. Allen; and the var. Zutea from the 
town of Nantucket, and the adjacent Island of Tuckernuck, on that of Dr. Benjamin 
Sharp. Mr. C. W. Johnson recorded it as found on Morris Island, a wooded island 
south of Chatham by Mr. L. R. Reynolds ; while Dr. W. G. Binney in 1885 cited it 
from Kettle Island, near Cape Ann, from Eagle Island, near Marblehead, ete. 
Prof. Cockerell records from Magnolia the typical form, the vars. /utea and 
rufozonata, and the sub-vars. pallida, subalbida, and subglobosa, and from Rock- 
port the vars. /utea with fifteen different band arrangements, including 00000, 12345, 
123(45), (123)(45), 10345, and 12045; the var. arenicola, 12345, and the sub-vars. 
subglobosa and subalbida, all collected by Mr. G. H. Clapp, who remarks that the 
bandless and faintly-banded shells were by far the most common. 
New York — Monroe county, but said to have been introduced (J. Walton, 
Nautilus, 1898, p. 133). Flushing, Long Island, 1885, W. M. Beauchamp. Binney 
and Bland cite a specimen in the Collection of the Smithsonian Institution received 
from Mrs. H. W. Parker, and collected at Ludlowville, Cayuga Lake. 
Nebraska—Dead shells found in Richardson county, but they may have been 
brought there by Indians (Aughey, Bull. Surv. Terr., 1877, p. 698). 
AUSTRALASIAN REGION. 
New Zealand— Recorded by M. H. Crosse on the authority of Mr. H. Suter. 
CU Fibch Mil p 
Fic. 405, —Facsimile of the Autograph of O. F. Miiller, appended to his introductory 
letter to Linné, dated from Copenhagen, March 30th, 1762. 
(Reproduced by kind permission of the Linnean So« iety of London). 
