FOUND IN NORFOLK. 47 



St Mallowes or ciuita [vech crossed out] vechia whereof 

 [some crossed out] many are eaten rawe the shells being 

 broakin with [cle crossed out] cleuers the greater part 

 pickled & sent weekly to London & other parts. 



Mituli or muscles in great quantitie as also chams or 

 cochles about stiskay [sic] 8c ye northwest coast. 



Pectines pectunculi varij or scallops of the lesser sort. 



Turbines or smaller wilks, leues, striati. as also 

 Trochi, Trochili, or scaloppes finely variegated & 

 pearly, [as also crossed out.] Lewise \^sic] purpuras 

 minores, nerites, cochleae, Tellinae. 



Lepades, patellae Limpets, of an vniualue shell wherein 

 an animal like a snayle cleauing fast unto the rocks. 



Solenes cappe lunge venetorum comonly a razor fish 

 the shell thereof dentalia 



[The MS. breaks off here, and the next paragraph 

 appears to be an interpolation.] 



Dentalia by some called pinpaches because pinmeat 

 thereof is taken out with a pinne or needle.** 



^* Mussels and Cockles are very abundant all along the shallow shores 

 of North-west Norfolk, as well as Clams, Mya armaria. " Scallops of the 

 lesser sort " are probably Pecten operciilarius and P. varius. The Whelk, 

 Buccinum undatum, is also very numerous, and forms the staple of a 

 considerable industry at Sheringham ; the lesser, or Dog- Whelk, Nassa 

 reticulata, as well as Purpura lapillus and several sorts of Trochus, are 

 commonly met with. The genus Nerita was a very comprehensive one in 

 Browne's time, and included many species of Littorina, of which the well- 

 known Periwinkle, L. litoria, is the most numerous here. No true Nerita 

 is now recognised as British, although in the warmer seas the genus is a 

 very numerous one. The most common Tellina here is T. tenuis. 

 Lepades patellce are of course the common Limpet {Patella vulgata), and 

 of the Solen, or Razor Shell, which Gwyn Jeffreys says in the time of 

 Aldrovandus was called by the Venetians " cappa longa," we have two 

 species found on the sandy portions of the coast. Here some confusion 

 exists in the MS., after the words, " the shell thereof dentalia," the note 

 ends abruptly, and is followed by an interpolation which seems quite 

 irrelevant, as Dentalia have surely never been called " Pin-patches " (the 

 vernacular name for Littorina litoria), nor is it probable that, like that 



