144 Bcauflful Shells. 



getting common. It has a pcncliant for nettles, 

 wild celery, elder Priimila vulgaris ^ and will climb 

 walls, and apple and scented poplar trees, to a great 

 height, but is capable of a long fast. Mr. Lowe 

 mentions one that fasted one hundred and eight 

 days in summer. Tlie green snail {11. rcvelafa, 

 Figs. 24 and 25) is very rare and pretty. It was 

 added by Edward Forbes in 1839 ; he found it near 

 Doyle's monument in Guernsey. The yellowish- 

 green n. ncmoralis, or girdled snail (Figs. 26 and 

 27), is abundant and beautiful, and known to every 



80-31. 



28-2P. H. hortensis (the Garden Snail), Montagu. 30-31. 

 H. arbustorum (the Shrub Snail), Linnccus. 



one. This snail also has been introduced into 

 Nortb America, where it is becoming common. It 

 is about seven-eischths of an inch in diameter. In 



