Part I. Of Sheik. 129 
The OVAL LONG-MOUTHD SNAIL Scarce bigger 
than a Filbert Kernel. The Lips are parallel. The right 
turned or doubled outward. The left uneven with three 
oblique furrows. The Back fpeckled with white and red. 
The Whirle hath four Rounds pretty high. 
The PURPLE-WILK with folid Spikes. Purpura aculek 
foli dps. This and the other kinds commonly found in the 
Bead-Sea. 
The PURPLE-WILK with long plated Spikes. Purpura 
Acide 'vs plicatk lo?igi ffim'ps. By Ferranto Imperato , called 
Echinata. Oleariws gives a good Figure, (a) Fab. Columna Tab * 2pi 
the Defcription, with the Title of Purpura murk at a five S *' 
Murex Roftratus parvus. I will add my own a little fuller. 
The main Body is not much bigger than a good big 
Nutmeg. But hath a Horn no lefs than two inches and 
\ long, near the Mouth * of an inch over, and lharp-pointed. 
Almoft a Pipe, but a little open underneath by the length. 
Along the right Lip and the Turban it felf, in three Rows, 
ftand feveral long fharp plated or gutter cl Spikes triangu- 
larly. But on the Turban they a little anticipate each other. 
As alfo do the Plates of the feveral Rounds. The right Lip 
is in fome fort toothed, the left turned outward. 
The PURPLE with REDOUBLED SPIKES , L e. with 
the greater doubled Spikes collaterally fubdivided into 
leffer. Of thefe there are four. Two of them white, 
defcribed by Columna with the Name of Purpura five 
Murex Pelagius marmoreus. Another, alh-colour d 3 and a 
fourth, brown. 
All Purples have a Canale or Gutter d Horn long or 
fhort, in which is lodged that part which is called the 
Tongue 3 but performs the fame Office as the Gills in other 
Fiihes. (b) The Animal creeps and directs its own way (fa ^ 
with its Horns, like a Snail: yet hath it not four, but two Colu mn. 
The Purple Tincture it yields, is contained betwixt that Lyfter de 
part which is called the Papaver and the Neck, (d) It is of ^Jj iftot 
a different degree 3 in fome, more upon the Red, like that 
of Cochinele 3 in others, more upon the Blew, like that of Ilb * 5> c * I5a 
Violets. It was anciently (pretfed out of the living (e) (e) Mufeum 
Animal, and) ufed efpecially for the deying of Silt's. But Worm ' 
is now grown out of ufe, as is likely , from the great 
S abundance 
