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Helix hifpida. Lin. Syji. p. 1244.— G;«c/. Syfi. p.3625. 42. Hispida. 

 C/iem. Conc/i. ix. t. 122. f. 1057. 1058. 

 MulJer Verm. ii. p. 73. No. 268. 

 Petiv. Gaz. t. 93. f. 13. 14. 

 Morton Northamp. p. 416 ? 

 Da Cofta. p. 58. t. 5. f. 10. 

 Pult. Cat. Dorfet. p. 47. 

 Schroeter Erdconch. p. 186. t. 2. f. 21. 



H. with a fub-globofe, thin, fragile, diaphanous (hell 

 with five rounded volutions of a very light horn-colour, 

 covered with fine, thick-fet, fhort, downy, whitifh hairs ; 

 aperture lunated ; lip thin, not reflefted, except at the 

 angle clofe to the umbilicus, where it turns back, and 

 partly furrounds the perforation : bafe rounded : umbi- 

 licus very fmall, and round. 



•This fpecies feldom much exceeds a quarter of an inch 

 in breadth, and fomething lefs in height; is fo remark- 

 ably light, and fo covered with hairs, that when let fall 

 upon a hard body is fcarce heard. 



It appears to be a very local fliell, having found it 

 Only about Tremough houfe, near Penryn in Cornwall, 

 where it is tolerably plentiful: and fparingly in Devon- 

 JJiire and WiltJJiire. Da Costa fpeaks of it from the 

 laft mentioned county, as well as from HampJIiire and 

 LincolnJJnre. 



Doctor PuLTENEY fays, it is common in Dorfeffhire 

 in woods, among raofs, and in wet and fhady places. 



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