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HELICID^. 
selves in the fields and hedges, the Sunday before 
the feast day. 
35. 2. Helix hortensis. Garden Snail. — Shell 
somewhat globular, thin, smooth, yellow or 
brown, uniform or banded; mouth roundish 
lunate, depressed, with the peristome white, 
(t. 3. f. 24.) 
Helix hortensis. Lister^ Conch, t. 3. f. 3. ; Linn. (?) ; Miiller., 
Verm. ii. 52.; Drap. p. 95. tab. 6. f. 6.; Brard., p. 16. tab. 
1. f. 3.; Montagu.^ p. 412. ; Jeffreys., Linn. Trans, xvi. 330.; 
Alder., M. Z. and B. ii. 106. ; Turton., Mann. 34. f. 24. — 
Tacbea hortensis. Leach., Syn. Moll. 62. — Cochlea faseiata. 
L)a Costa., p. 76. t. 5. f. 4, 5. — Helix nemoralis var. Ma- 
ton and Itachct, Linn. Trans, viii. 206. ; Dillw. Cat, ii. 942. ; 
Forbes and Haidey., B. M. iv. 53. 
Inhab. woods, hedges, and wet shady places. 
Animal reddish, yellowish, or pale grey ; tentacles 
generally dark grey. {^Sturm^ t. 22.) Jaw strong, 
costated in front, edge toothed. 
Shell about a fourth part smaller than H. nemoralis ^ 
which in colour and varieties it much resembles, but 
is distinguished by its smaller size, in not being quite 
so convex, in being more polished and thinner, and 
in the white margin round the aperture. 
Like many other snails, it offers the following 
monstrosities: — !. In the whorls being reversed. 
{Ferns, t. 36. f. 10.) 2. And in the whole of the 
spires being more or less separated from each other. 
{Ferns. Hist. t. 36. f. 11, 12.) 
In the Annals of Philosophy for 1825, p. 152., I 
observed that there was a difference in the form of 
that part of the generative organs of Helix nemoralis 
