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HELIX 
Bava. Shell fab-eylindrical, glabrous; contrary, cand a in Boitaity: that Pg throve fo wellin our climate 
barred 5 lip flightly refle&ted ; pillar yellow. Litt. e found now in fome parts in vaft abundance, It 
m Italy, about he middle Ab the” 
ite, a A r@ to fix rufous bands; length Hom wage etme 
laft cen e of foo . 
twelve to fixteen lin eotarya be . vivre » aS an. 
Aubrey informs vi thi i Charles Howard, efq. of the - 
Shell glofly, 
‘tudinal ftrie ; -fpire contrary“and hemifpherical. “Arundel n that account, feattcred and dif-. 
whitifh with very thin longi- 
Spengler. 
A —. “fhell, found on: the fands of the [Armenian perfed thofe fails a all 2 the downs. in the woods at 
fhore _ Albury, an aficient feat of that noble Be and alfo near 
Raided. * Shell fub-globular, depree, with a conéave Afhted, Boxhill, Dorking, a Bi and raugced where 
bafe and lunate Pie hem they» have increafed a greatly, peace: even oe onfines of 
seas Rhode [ffan &. Suffex abounds wit em. mp! flowed | ta 
Prgei in different Ai of the ee but by none n 
Shell ee rather. Stil ou ~~ rofy ; aper- 
ture aghicts ; lip dilated and whit hem 
wk. es peo lines, polithed wit th a white inhbites aper- 
lip yellowifh rofy ; whorls about ‘fu. 
much fuecefs as by fir Kenelm Dig 
ee , ong 3 
; Shell oblong, ger and white ; ; aperture 
eoothe tis lip dilated, _ Cheni 
Native, of India. The teh eleven’ lines; fhell dia- 
phanous, ‘with eight bag: ; aperture ovate ; margin of the 
lip a little jagged. 
*%* Shell roundifb 3 wi th an umbilicus or healer agen: 
Shell umbilicated, fub-globofe, eg a faf. 
Pagnel, in pre, eee Vi oe 
Giauca. Shell. umbilicated, soundifh and pointed 5 
margined ; ape “eu oval. Kno 
Shell pale brown, with four ae pia se bands ; 5 apere 
ture yellowifh.. Native place unknown, 
Cir Shell fomewrbat ngs s: e convex, cbtuley 
Lina. 
TRINA. 
PomatTra. 
os with brown ; mouth rather roundifh-luna onoyv. its the w nai 
f. Shells. Felix pomatia; Linm. ~ Cochka pon Shell perforated, fub fa ar bular, « tRei~ 
Cola. Pomatia Gefueri, Litt, “Edible faail. ota s band united to.a. white ‘nes w whorl 
foail im ngla 
and 
ecg, ‘hard, and thick ; whorls feven 5 aperture 
Country unknown ae 
pA. Sliell een fub-globular, with hollow d ts, 
ed - sai firft. whorl larger, and deflected r 
ameter in our ma ate; on 
Touhy: its fize j is much {uperior. 
and oie fitnations. 
. e The animal of this {pecies beittg Licgets 
Pe. unpleafant favour, has been. elteem 
thé re 
Tt is for 
Se article # is Shell eight lines i in diameter, whitey and yell ellawith, above. 
wha ea 
them about Gothurit, the feat of that fam ey near ere : 
from early times. “It was a favourite ait with the — GrosuLus. Shell globular, fub-umbilicated, and white ; 
ee who had their cochlear or fnail-tews, in which lip reflected. ‘ 
liny rélates that the firft ~ Glabrous, immaculate, and: thickifh, fornetimes Aight 
they were bred and fatte 
this luxury was 5 Polis Harpinus, a little before 
Wars between Cvfar' and Pompey. Varro has 
inded down to us a defeription of thefe ftews and the — 
Bs of making them: he fays open places were chofen 
unded by water, that the {nails might not abandon sesh, 
and care was taken that the places were not much expoled 
to the fun or to the dews. T'he ftews were 
rocks or eminencies, whofe bottoms were watered b 
$ or rivers, and if a natural dew or moifture was not 
they formed an. artificial one, by bringing a pipe to it 
full of holes, like a watering-pet, by which the place 
as continually {prinkled or moiftened The fnails required 
= attention or food, for as they crawled they found it on 
the floor or a area, and on a walls or sce if not hindered 
by the furrounding water. . The i bran, and 
fodden lees of wine, or firailar fu pacts intermixed with a 
’ few Taurel leaves: 
. Pliny tells us there were many’ forts of thefe {nail 
ae 
as 
Whitith from Umbria; the ore fort from Dalmatia, “the 
ian Kind, &c. Varro declares that fome of — fails 
ay aah as food in ma ris of ahh ef dai aunte Crixcra. . tub. F 
ent, and they. are ie in flews oo i fe. with rufous lip and bands ; whorls rs Mull 
Pihatey are commo in = markets, and wh eage nghteen cen lines. eatin ere 
ew? Martinacci | In France, fays Differ, u ccna wlan 
ee 3 i : fa eo ep ws mi a  astve Ok ay and refembles the 
corti ice ery pil an ite a “ Phe diamete fourteen 2 ee 
‘ prefent perio 
eS, The helix pomatia is Pere an ial eh but es er 
nerally made | 
ribbed senile with five whorls. 
Lacrea. Shell imperforated,. denealiall ‘grey. cei 
white dots; aperture red-brown ; be! the a bees. and 
- denticula n. 
Inhabits Portugal. 
Inoisa. Shell ay onbiicatedy and 
y unknown. of 
