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HELIX. 
SNAIL-SHELL. 
26. Helix Pomatia. Edible Snail-shell. 
Lister, pi. 48. f. 46— Pennant, pi. 87. f. 1—Da Cotta 
pi. 4. f. 14— Donovan, pi. 84 —Dorset Cat. pi. 20. f. 14. 
Shell nearly globular, semitransparent, longitudinally 
'wrinkled, reddish-brown with whitish bands, sometimes 
nearly white with the bands hardly discernible: spires five, 
the first very large and tumid, with generally four whitish 
bands, the two lower of which are close together and con¬ 
tinue round the next volution, the upper ones dull white; 
the remaining volutions small and a little produced: aper- j 
ture large, roundish crescent-shaped j the inner margin a I 
little thickened and white, and spreading over the perfora¬ 
tion, which is small: diameter about two inches. 
Variety , with the volutions reversed. 
Lister , pi. 33. f. 32. 
"Woods of the southern counties. Dr. Rutty, in his 
Natural History of the County of Dublin, gives this as an 
Irish shell, not uncommon in his time; but it has not been 
found of late. Mr. Dillwyn remarks that the margin of 
the aperture is slightly margined, which we have not ob¬ 
served in the many specimens under our examination, all 
of wliich were, however, dead. v. m. 
27- Helix Arbustorum. Shrub Snail-shell. 
Lister , pi. 56. f. 53 — Pennant, pi. 88. f. 4— Da Cotta, I 
pi. 17- f. 6 — Donovan , pi. 136— Dorset Cat. pi. 2. f. 6 . 
Shell nearly globular, semitransparent, glossy' rather 
pointed at the top, slightly wrinkled, with a very small 
perforation which is almost obliterated in the old shells : 
spires five, rounded and well defined, beautifully marbled 
with chesnut brown and yellowish white ; the larger volu- 
tion with a darker narrow band round the middle, andcoo- 
tinning along the base of the next: aperture crescent- 1 
shaped, produced on the fore-part, with a reflected rim 
round it, and a pure white broad margin within; the pillar 
white, and spread over the perforation. The dark bandoa 
the body volution is sometimes either very faint, or wanting, 
piameter more than half an inch ; height as much. 
Moist boggy woods : not common, v. v. 
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