3£8 HELIX. SNJTL. Class VI. 



27- POMA- Pomatia. Dioscor. lib. ii. c. 9. Lisi. Jngl. tah. ii. Jig. 1. 



TIA. 



exotic. 



p. 305. Gesner Aq. Qb5. Faun. Suec. No. 2183. 



Lin. St/St. 1244. No. 677- i^?v. TV. viii. 201. 



Gm, Zm. 3627. Mont. Test. Br. 405. ■: h. ; 



He. with five spires most remarkably ventri- 

 cose ; slightly umbilicated ; fasciated with a 

 lighter and deeper brown. 



Inhabits the woods of the southern counties 

 of England. . 



A naturalized species, introduced, as is said, 

 by Sir Kenelm JDigby ; whether for medical 

 purposes, or as a food, is uncertain. Tradition 

 says, that to cure his beloved wife of a decay 

 was the object. a 



They are quite confined to our southern 

 counties. An attempt was made to bring them 

 into Nu7'tha}nptomhire,* but they would not 

 live there. 



These are used as a food in several parts of 

 Europe during Le?it ; and are preserved in an 

 escargatoire, or a large place boarded in, with 

 the floor covered half a foot deep with herbs, 

 in which the snails nestle and fatten. f They 

 were also a favorite dish with the Romans, 

 who had their cochlearia, a nursery similar to 



*■ Morton, 415. f Addison's Travels, 272. 



