339 



Britijh, though itmun be acknowledged we have never 

 been fortunate enoucjh to find it. 



"^ 61. 



Carychium minimum. Muller Venn. ii. p. 125. No. 321. Carychium^ 

 Sc/iroet. FluJJconch. p. 324. No. 122. 



Helix Carychium, GmcL Syji. p. 3665. 



Turt. Lin. iv. p. 541. 



Turbo JValk. Min. Shells, f. 51. 



T. with a glofTy, pellucid, white fliell, with five volu- 

 tions finely flriated longitudinally, rounded, and well 

 defined by the feparating line : apex obtufe : aperture 

 fub-oval, contrafted, marginated ; outer lip thickened 

 inwards in the middle by a knob ; pillar lip furnifhed 

 with two teeth, and foraetimes the rudiment of a third, 

 above the other two. Length fcarce one line; breadth 

 one third its length. 



This, the finalleft of our land fpecies, is not unfre- 

 quent in woods, and on moffy banks. 



We have found it in feveral parts o? Wilt/hire, parti- 

 cularly in Lackham wood, and in drifted fand of, the ri- 

 ver Avon : alfo in Devonjliire, and other parts. Is com- 

 mon in Kent. Mr. Boys fent it to us from Sandwich, for 

 Mr. Walker's (hell above quoted; who fays, it is found 

 on the moffy banks of a ftream near FaverJJiam. 



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The minutenefs of this fpecies has probably been the 



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