190 
EDIBLE BRITISH MOLLLSKS, 
list of Church ornaments in the 
fifteenth century, 112. 
Baptismal shells, usually of silver 
gilt, but real scallop-shells used 
in some churches, 1 12. 
Baptism, in private, a wooden shell 
used, 112. 
Barrois, escargotiere in, 12. 
Baskets-full of razor-shells sold at 
Tenby, 41. 
Beira, or great scallop (Pecten 
maxim us), 101. 
Belief in the power of the bones 
of St. James to work miracles 
nearly died out. 111. 
Berizon, or cockle, 27. 
Bernicle, 121. 
Bigorneau, 135. 
Billingsgate Market supplied with 
mussels from Holland, etc., 47. 
Birds feed on snails, 9. 
Bishop Mayhew, 108. 
Bisse del legno, 159. 
Black cockle, 44. 
Blackfish or Tintenfisch, 134. 
Bohrmuschel or Steinbolirer, 159. 
Bouchots, or artificial mussel beds, 
46. 
Bouger’s huge cuttle-fish, 169. 
Boyl-yas, or native sorcerer, 63. 
Brading and its oysters, 73. 
Breeding pearls, 30. 
Bridge at Bideford, 48. 
British localities for Solen margi- 
natus, 39. 
British oyster valued by the Eo- 
mans, 68. 
British specimen of Helix aperta, 
15. 
Brown oyster sauce, 86. 
Bruvane, 27. 
Bucarde, 27. 
Buccinum, used for bait for long- 
line fishing, 124. 
Buccinum undatum, 123. 
Buccinum, or whelk, carved on 
font in St. Clement’s Chm’ch, 
Sandwich, 133. 
Buccin onde, 123. 
Buckie, whelk-tingle or sting- 
winkle, 124. 
Burran Bank oysters, 74. 
Burton Bindons, oysters called, 74. 
Butterfish, price of, 143. 
Butterfish, or Purr, 143. 
Byssus of mussels, 48. 
Caesar and the pearls of Hreat 
Britain, 55. 
Caesar, Julius, prohibits unmarried 
women to wear pearls and pur- 
ple, 57. 
Csesar, Julius, first wore the toga 
entirely of purple, 132. 
Cagouille, 14. 
Calmar, 17 1. 
Calamares eaten in Spain, 174. 
Calamaretto, or Seppietta, 173. 
Calcined mussel-shells make strong 
lime, 49. 
Canestrelli di mare, or Pecten 
varius, 99. 
Caperlongers, 138. 
Cappa di San Griacomo, 101. 
Cappa Santa, 101. 
Cappa tonda, 39. 
Caracola, 19. 
Caracola del huerta, 19. 
Caracola del mar, 19. 
Caracola del rio, 19. 
Caracoleros, 19. 
Caracoles con Perejil, 23. 
Caragoou, 14. 
Caraguolo, 14. 
Cardiadge, 27. 
Cardium aculeatum found on the 
Devonshire coast, 38. 
Cardium edule, 27. 
Cardium rusticum, 36. 
Cardium rusticum or tubercula- 
tum, found at Paignton and 
Dawlish, 37. 
Cardium rusticum, its leaping 
powers described by Mr. Gosse, 
37. 
Carlingford oysters, 74. 
Carrickfergus oysters, large size, 
74. 
Cathedral at Panama, the steeples 
faced with pearl oyster shells, 
116. 
Catherine de Medicis, 58. 
