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Helix puti-ls. Lift. Conch. t.l23. f.23.— /</. A>igl t.2.f.24? 



Tart. Lin. iv. p. 538. — Gualt. t. 5. II. 

 Helix llmora. Pult. Cat. Dorfet. p. 4S. 

 Helix fuccinea. Mnlkr f^erin. ii. p. 97. No. 296. 

 Turbo trianfra6lus. Da Cofta p. 92. t, 5. f. 13. 



H. with an extremely thin, pellucid (hell, of a rcd- 

 difii-yellow colour, inclining to orange, with three 

 fpires ; the firft very large, making at lead four-fifths 

 of the fliell ; the others of courfe very fmall, but the 

 middle one is vaftly fuperior in fize to that which forms 

 the apex : it is a little wrinkled longitudinally, but glof- 

 fy : aperture oval, extending two-thirds the length of 

 the fliell ; outer lip extremely thin, frequently quite 

 membranaceous, and elaflic ; pillar lip very flightly 

 thickened. Length three-quarters of an inch ; breadth 

 not half an inch ; but ufually not near fo large. 



It is a very common fpecies in wet places, amongft 

 willows, and fub-aquatic plants: in its hrft ftate is 

 greenifh-yellow, almoft membranaceous, and afterwards 

 becomes more orange. Dead fliells are frequently bleach- 

 ed white. 



The animal is not an aquatic, though it refides always 

 near water, or in moift places, upon the flalks and leaves 

 of plants ; it is, indeed, fometimes found in water, but we 

 confider it more by accident than choice, and foon re- 

 gains its former ftation on fome neighbouring plant. 



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