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getting common. It has a penchant for nettles, 

 wild celery, elder Primula vulgaris, and will climb 

 walls, and apple and scented poplar trees, to a great 

 height, but is capable of a long fast. Mr. Lowe 

 mentions one that fasted one hundred and eight 

 days in summer. The green snail (H. revelata, 

 Figs. 24 and 25) is very rare and pretty. It was 

 added by Edward Forbes in 1839 ; he found it near 

 Doyle's monument in Guernsey. The yellowish- 

 green S*. nemoralis, or girdled snail (Figs. 26 and 

 27), is abundant and beautiful, and known to every 



30-31. 



28-29. H. hortensis (the Garden Snail), Montagu. 30-31. 

 H. arbustorum (the Shrub Snail), LinncBus. 



one. This snail also has been introduced into 

 North America, where it is becoming common. It 

 is about seven-eighths of an inch in diameter. In 



