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EDIBLE BRITISH MOLLUSKS, 
Pinna forms a disli at an Attic ban- 
quet, 141. 
Pinna at Dawlish, 138. 
Pinna, or nacre, described by 
Pliny, 139. 
Pinna a reclierche dish at Naples, 
141. 
Pinna pectinata, 138. 
Pinna soup, 142. 
Pinna wool, 140. 
Pinnse fried like cutlets, 142. 
Pinnophylax, 139. 
Pinnoteres, 139. 
Pinnotheres pisum, 51. 
Pinnotheres veteriim, 51. 
Piscinola, the famous diver, 168. 
Planorbis corneus yields a dye, 132. 
Plato recommends the polypus to 
be boiled or roasted, 165. 
Pliny and the luminosity of the 
Pholas after death, 161. 
Pliny mentions several kinds of 
snails, 10. 
Pliny recommends snails for a 
cough, 8. 
Pliny’s observations on the scallop, 
97. 
Pliny’s supper, 11. 
Poisoning by green oysters at 
Kocheibrt, 79. 
Poli’s method of cooking Cardium 
rusticum, 39. 
Polpo, Italian name for the com- 
mon poiilp, 165. 
Polynesian method of catching 
cuttlefish, 167. 
Polypus said by Pliny to arrest 
hsemorrhage if bruised and ap- 
plied, 170. 
Polypus, its dangerous powers,168. 
Polypus, symbol of Messina, is 
figured on a medal of that citv, 
174. 
Pontoppidan’s description of the 
kraken, 169. 
Pope, the, uses a purple robe to 
celebrate Mass in Lent and Ad- 
vent, etc., 132. 
Porphyra shellfish, discovery of 
the, 129. 
Potage a la Poissoniere, 85. 
Poulp, habits of, 166. 
Poulp in the Mediterranean, 165. 
Poulp, large, at Nice, 167. 
Poulps live in holes amongst rocks, 
166. 
Poultry fed on Patella vulgata, 
121 . 
Poultry fed with lustreless pearls 
and grain, to restore brilliancy 
to the pearls, 61. 
Powder-horns, 138. 
Price of Haliotidse in Channel 
Isles, 115. 
Price of Plelix aspersa, 17. 
Price of Helix nemoralis, 16. 
Price of Helix pisana at Marseil- 
les, 16. 
Price of Helix pomatia, 17. 
Price of Helix vermiculata, 17. 
Price of mussels taken at Lymp- 
stone, 47. 
Price of ovsters at Billingsgate in 
1864, 80. 
Price of scallops, 98. 
Prices of Scotch pearls, 53. 
Principal oyster beds, 70. 
Professional pilgrim at Santiago 
de Compostella, 111. 
Proper seasons for visiting Spain 
for scientific purposes, 19. 
Proportions for mixing the juice of 
the buccinum and pelagium for 
dyeing wool, 130. 
Protection to English pilgrims, 
107. 
Provemjaux names for Helix 
aperta, 15. 
Psammobia vespertina, or “ the 
setting sun,” 149. 
Psammobia vespertina eaten at 
Kenniare, 149. 
Psammobia vespertina, localities 
for, 150. 
Pudworm, 161. 
Puerto, Santa Maria, supplies 
Madrid with oysters, 80. 
Pullers, sugar-loons, or colliers, 
155. 
Pullet, or cullyock, 142. 
Pullet, or cullvock, used for bait,* 
143. 
