140 PHILOSOPHICAL TRAXSACTIONS. [anNO iG^A. 



have, as restorative to hectic persons; and what credit the Romans may deserve, 

 counting them, especially the necks of them highly venereal; Celsus also par- 

 ticularly commending them to be boni succi and stomacho aptas. — 9. Also in- 

 quire concerning the mechanical uses of the saliva of these animals, as in dying, 

 whitening of wax, hair, &c. 



N. B. The figures are numbered and explained by the tables. The figures of 

 the naked snails are omitted in this specimen, being not material to that part of 

 the design, which is, (when the other parts of these tables are finished,) to 

 give the reader an exact view of animal-shells, as well as of fossils figured 

 like shells, whereby he will be best able to judge, what to think of their 

 original. 



^ Table of English Snails of the Land, River and Sea Species with their Figures, 



See Plate vi. N° 105, p. 99. 

 Cochleae 



Terrestres — testis intectae, turbinatae^ 

 breviorejigura, N° V. 



1 . Cochlea cinerea maxima edulis, cujus os operculo gypseo per hyemem tegitvir, 



agri Hartfordiensis. 



2. Cochlea cinerea et leviter rufescensj striata, operculo testaceo cochleato 



donata, 



3. Cochlea et colore et fasciis multa varietate ludens. 



'i. Cochlea subflava, maculata, atque unica fascia castanei coloris per medium 

 anfractus insignita. 



5. Cochlea vulgaris major, hortensis, maculata et fasciata. 

 lv7igioreJigura 



ad sinistram convolutae, N° IV. 



6. Buccinum exiguum subflavura, mucrone obtuso, sive figui^ cylindrica. 



7. Buccinum ajterum exiguum in Musco degens, 5 anfractuum, mucrone acuto. 



8. Buccinum rupium majusculum, senis orbibus protractum. 



9. Buccinum parvum sive trochilus sylvaticus agri Lincolniensis. 

 ad dextram, N° II. 



10. Buccinum puUum, ore compresso, circiter denis spiris fastlgiatum. 



11. Buccinuni alterum pellucidum, subflavum, intra senos fere orbes mucro- 



natum. 

 compressce., N° II. 



12. Cochlea cinerea, fasciata, Ericetorum. 



13. Cochlea altera, puUa, sylvatica, spiris in aciem depressis. 

 Terrestres nudae, limaces dictae quibusdam, N° III. 



14. Limax cinereus maximus, striatus et maculatus, lapillo sive ossiculo insignia 



loco Cranii, donatus, locis udis et umbrosis degens. 

 Fluviatiles turbinatae, cochleae, N° I. 



15. Limax cinereus alter, parvus, unicolor, pratensis. 



16. Limax ater. 



17. Cochlea fasciata, ore ad amussim rotundo. 



