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EDIBLE BRITI&H MOLLLsKS. 



Pinna forms a dish at an Attic ban- 

 quet, 141. 



Pinna at Dawlish, 138. 



Pinna, or nacre, deacribed by 

 Pliny, 139. 



Pinna a recherebe dish at Naples, 

 141. 



Pinna pectinata, 138. 



Pinna sonp, 142. 



Pinna wool, 140. 



Pinnffi fried like cutlets, 142. 



Pinnophylax, 139. 



Pinnoteres, 139. 



Pinnotheres piaum, 51. 



Piiinotheres Tcterum, 51. 



Piscinola, the famous diver, 168. 



Pianorbis corneus yields a dye, 132. 



Plato recommends the polypus to 

 be boiled or roasted, 165. 



Pliny and the luminosity of the 

 Pholas after death, 161. 



Pliny mentions seyeral kinds of 

 snails, 10. 



Pliny recommends snails for a 

 cough, 8. 



Pliny's observations on the scallop, 

 97. 



PUuy's supper, 11. 



Poisoning by green oysters at 

 Eochefort,"79. 



Poll's method of cooking Cardium 

 msticum, 39. 



Polpo, Italian name for the com- 

 mon poulp, 165. 



Polynesian method of catching 

 cuttlefish, 167. 



Polypus said by Pliny to arrest 

 hsemorrhage if bruised and ap- 

 plied, 170. 



Polypus, its dangerous powers,168. 



Polypus, symbol of Messina, is 

 figured on a medal of that city, 

 174. 



Pontoppidan's description of the 

 kraken, 169. 



Pope, the, uses a purple robe to 

 celebrate Mass in Lent and Ad- 

 vent, etc., 132. 



Porpliyra shellfish, discovery of 

 the, 129. 



Potage a la Poissonijire, 85. 



Poulp, habits of, 166. 

 Poulp in the Mediterranean, 165. 

 Poulp, large, at Nice, 167. 

 Poulps live in holes amongst rocks, 



166. 

 Poultry fed on Patella vulgata, 



121. 

 Poultry fed with lustreless pearls 



and grain, to restore brilliancy 



to the pearls, 61. 

 Powder-horns, 138. 

 Price of Haliotidic in Channel 



Isles, 115. 

 Price of Helix aspersa, 17. 

 Price of Helix nemoralis, 16. 

 Price of Helix pisana at Marseil- 

 les, 16. 

 Price of Helix pomatia, 17. 

 Price of Helix vermiculata, 17. 

 Price of mussels taken st Lyrap- 



stone, 47. 

 Price of ovsters at Billingsgate in 



1864, 80. 

 Price of scallops, 98. 

 Prices of Scotch pearls, 53. 

 Principal oyster beds, 70. 

 Professional pilgrim at Santiago 



de Compostella, 111 . 

 Proper seasons for visiting Spain 



for scientific j^urposes, 19. 

 Proportions for mixing the juice of 



the buccinum and pelagium for 



dyeing wool, 130. 

 Protection to English pilgrims, 



107. 

 Proven^aux names for Helix 



aperta, 15. 

 Psammobia vespertina, or " the 



setting sun," 149. 

 Psammobia vespertina eaten at 



Kenmare, 149. 

 Psammobia vespertina, localities 



for, 150. 

 Pudworm, 161. 

 Puerto, Santa Maria, supplier 



Madrid with oysters, 80. 

 Pullers, sugar-loons, or colliers, 



155. 

 PuUet, or cullyock, 142. 

 Pullet, or cullyock, used for bait, 



143. 



