272 THE WOODLANDS. 



recognize the beauty ,of their form and colouring, 

 which latter has at times a delicate tinge of pink or 

 peach blossom. 



Still smaller, less conspicuous, of a horny-brown 

 colour, sometimes hairy, sometimes silky, and some- 

 times smooth, is the Bristly Snail, 1 scarcely more 

 than a quarter of an inch in diameter. It must be 

 sought under stones, climbing up herbaceous plants, 

 or amongst leaves. 



We might name several other small shells with a 

 somewhat similar contour which are to be found 

 amongst fallen leaves or amongst grass. The most 

 abundant of these is a much more flattened shell 

 than any yet enumerated, of a rufous colour, but 

 most readily distinguished by deep radiating lines. 3 

 It is a shell which when once seen can never be 

 mistaken. 



Hitherto the shells we have named may be charac- 

 terized as shorter from the apex of the spiral to the 

 mouth than across at right-angles to it, or about equal 

 in length, whilst those remaining to be noticed are 

 longer in the direction of the spiral than their broadest 

 diameter. One of these is found amongst leaves and 

 upon trunks ; it is of a brownish horn-colour, but the 

 animal has a singular habit of rolling its shell in mud, 

 apparently to render it less easy of detection, so that 

 it needs a practised eye to find it, for the coating of 

 mud on the shell closely resembles the bark. 



Some small shells are named Pupa, because of 

 their resemblance in form to the pupae of certain 



1 Helix hisida. 2 Helix rotundata. 



