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Helix lapicida Linn. — A well distributed species. Bath (Mrs. 

 Oldroyd) ; Jenyns Coll. ; Leigh Woods (Cundall) ; Abbots Leigh 

 (Bristol Mus.). " Common, but confined apparently to the limestone 

 rocks, near Wells, Cheddar, Wrington, Clevedon, and Elton Hill ; 

 Cadbury Hill, Yatton ; Cleeve Foot, Axbridge, etc." (Norman) ; 

 Taunton (Bowell). " Wincanton, Glastonbury, hills around Milton 

 Clevedon" (E.W.S.). 



Var. nigrescens Taylor. — Bristol (Bristol Mus.); Bratton St. 

 Maur and Wincanton (E.W.S.). 



Var. minor Moq. — Specimens approaching this form from 

 Bratton St. Maur. 



Var. depressa n. var. — Apex of shell much depressed. 

 Bratton St. Maur, rare. 



Helix aspersa Miill. — Abundant everywhere. This species is 

 much sought after in the winter months by men from Bristol, who 

 collect and sell them by the gallon to fishmongers. (See Naturalists 

 Chronicle, Jan. & Feb., 1897). 



Var. conoidea Pic. — General in hedges (Cundall) ; Bratton St. 

 Maur. Not common. 



Var. globosa Moq. — One example from a hedge bank near 

 Pitcombe Rectory. 



Var. minor Moq. — Bristol (Mus. Coll.); Bratton St. Maur, 

 frequent. 



Var. nigrescens, Moq. — Occasionally with the type in hedge- 

 banks. Bratton St. Maur. 



Var. maxima Taylor. — An exceedingly fine specimen from a 

 hedge ; Bratton St. Maur. We regret not having taken measurements 

 (have since given it away). It was quite as large as a full-grown H. 

 pomatia, and altogether stout. In colour approaching the nigrescens 

 form. 



Var. grisea Moq. — Coombe Down, Bath (Mrs. Oldroyd) ; Leigh 

 Woods, Bristol (Bristol Mus.). 



Var. unicolor Moq. — " An unicolorous specimen (not exalbida, 

 Menke) from Hatch Beauchamp, near Taunton " (Bowell). 



Var. albo-fasciata Jeffr. — Near Bristol (Bristol Mus.); Bratton 

 St. Maur ; hedge-banks, near the Cross Roads, tolerably common. 



Var. exalbida Menke. — Evidently very local, but always 

 abundant where it occurs. Near Bristol (Bristol Mus.) ; Cuckoo Hill, 

 near Bruton (Heginbotham) ; Cannington, near Bridgewater ; the 

 Cross Roads, known as " Jack White's Gibbet " ; Bratton St. Maur. 



Var. tenuior Shutll. — Bratton St. Maur ; rare. 



Var. zonata Moq. — Bratton St. Maur and district. 



