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Mr. Pennant mentions it from Red Wharf, Anglejea; 

 Da Costa from the lliore near Chrijlchurcli, HampJJiire. 



7 

 Solen fiagilis. PuU. CU. Dorfet. p. 28. Fragil!^. 



S. with a very thin, pellucid, fragile, glolTy, white 

 (hell, fomewhat deprefTed in the middle from the hinge to 

 the oppofite margin ; oblong, rounded at both ends ; hinge 

 near the middle, furnifhed with a fmall fubulate tooth in 

 one valve; in the other two, one of which is fubulate, 

 the other broad, both recurved. 



This is a very rare fpecies ; we received it from the 

 Rev. Mr. Rackett, and believe it was found on the 

 Dorfet coaft. This fpecimen is nearly an inch and a half 

 broad, and half an inch long. 



Doftor PuLTENEY fpcaks of it as belonging to llie 

 Portland cabinet, named by Doftor Solander. We 

 confefs this fhell has hitherto efcaped our notice on the 

 various parts of the coaft we have examined, but can 

 have no doubt of its being EngliJIi, as the Doftor found it 

 himfelf on Studland beach. This author mentions that 

 it is marked with one or two reddifh ftripes, in an oblique 

 direftion from the hinge towards the margin ; our fpeci- 

 men has no fuch markins[s. 



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