LIMAX. 
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series of circular lines, rounded behind ; shell 
small, oval, rather concave, thin, wrinkled, 
brittle with a nipple, (t. 3. f. 6.) 
Limax (Eulimax) agrestis. Moq. Tandon^ Moll. Fran. ii. 22. 
t. 2. f. 18. 22. t. 3. f. ], 2. — Limax reticulatus. Milller^ 
Verm, 207. — Limax cinereus alter. Lister.^ Anim. Ang. 130. 
t. 2. f. 16. — Limax cinereus immaculatus. Limt. F. Suec. 
366. — Limax reticulatus. Muller., Verm. H. 10. — Limax 
sylvaticus. Drap. Hist. 126 t. 9. f. 11. (not 10.) — Limax 
agrestis. Linn. S. N.l. 1082.; Muller, Verm. 204.; Nun- 
neley, 1. c. t. 1. f. 4.; Ferussac, Moll. 73.; Leach, Syn. 
Moll. 54. ; Forbes and Hanley, B. M. iv. 13. t. D D D. f. 2. ; 
Clark, Ann. and Mag. N. H. xii. 338. t. 12. f. 13. t. 10. f. — 
Limax filans. Hoy, Linn, Trans.; JAst. Ang. t. 3. f. 16. — 
(Shell.) Limacella obliqua. Brard, 118. t. 4. f. 5, 6. 13, 
14. 17. — Limacellus obliquus. Turt. Man. 26. t. 3. f. 6., 
as variegatus. 
Inhab. fields. {^Lister. ^ 
Varies greatly in size and colour, from white to 
pale reddish, and from grey to blackish, but is easily 
distinguished by its short keel, which is always 
placed obliquely. When irritated, it pours out a 
milky white mucus, which leaves a white streak when 
it is dry. 
Mr. Forbes figures a monstrosity with the two 
upper eye-bearing tentacles united into a single 
conical prominence. Moll. t. 1. 1. I. f. 4.) 
M. Eecluz has observed that Limax rvfus and 
L. agrestis often attack not only Boletus edulis^ but 
also Agaricus muscarius^ a very poisonous mush- 
room, and the Agaricus phalloides^ a species still 
more formidable from the rapidity of its deadly 
effects, without any evil effect ; at the same time 
they seem to avoid Boletus luridus^ which has the 
faculty of becoming blue when the fragments are 
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