328 HELIX. SNAIL. Class VI. 



27. poma- Pomatia. Dioscor. lib. ii. c. 9. List. Angl. tab. ii. Jig. 1 . 



XIA 



.•' p. 305. Gwrcer Aq. 655. Jawrc. Swec. iVo. 2183. 



Lin. Syst. 1244. iVo. 677. Lin. Tr. viii. 201. 



Gm. Lin. 3627. -Mont. Test. Br. 405. 



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 Digby ; whether for medical 

 purposes, or as a food, is uncertain. Tradition 

 says, that to cure his beloved wife of a decay 

 was the object. 



They are quite confined to our southern 

 counties. An attempt was made to bring them 

 into Northamptonshire* but they would not 

 live there. 



These are used as a food in several parts of 

 Europe during Lent ; 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. 



