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and dead wood and amongst the roots of grass in open places. 
“Not abundant, but found both in the Weald and on the South 
Downs.”—B. °This minute species, inhabiting a transparent shell 
with a high polish, together with the. Top-shaped or Fulvous Snail, 
to be next mentioned, is found under stones and moist decaying 
leaves in the upland and lowland covers, hedgerows, gardens and 
pastures in the neighbourhood of Harting.—W. On the Downs 
at Lewes it is said to be not uncommon, in company with 
Helix pulchella, amongst earth at the roots of grass—U. It 
has been met with also at Brighton (M), and in the vicinity of 
Eastbourne (G). 
Zonites fulvus. The Tawny Snail.—Found in similar situations 
to the last named. 
Helix aculeata. The Prickly Snail.—The distinguishing cha- 
racter of this little shell, which measures about the tenth of an inch 
in breadth, is that the epidermis with which it is clothed rises at 
frequent and regular intervals in the middle of each whorl into 
sharp teeth or points, so as to present under a lens the.appearance 
of a very elegant spiral of bristles. It is met with not uncom- 
monly under fragments of chalk and among decaying leaves 
under beech trees—W. Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys has observed that 
it walks with its shell erect, carrying it in the most graceful 
manner, and often ascends trees, particularly the alder. In the 
autumn it is said to use the falling leaf as a locomotive to reach 
the ground. 
Helix pomatia. The Edible Snail.—In a copse upon the Downs 
in West Sussex, not far from Petersfield, one or two dead shells 
have been found, from which it may be assumed that this species 
formerly existed in that neighbourhood, but no living examples 
have been met with in recent times. A friend in that neighbour- 
hood, however, turned out fifty or sixty live specimens, but the 
experiment to establish them in the new locality failed—H. Mr. 
W. Jeffery, of Ratham, near Chichester, writing to the Editor in 
January, 1874, says:—“ Many times have I searched for Helex 
pomatia on our Downs, but always without success. Some five or 
six years ago I had between thirty and forty sent me from the 
Surrey Downs, a part of which I turned down in my garden, and 
the remainder on a bank of light soil near. Of those on the bank 
I saw no more, but those in the garden seemed to do pretty well 
for a time, and at least one brood of young were hatched, some of 
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