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HELIX. SNAIL-SHELL. 
greenish, purple of various shades, pale pink; whitish* 
rarely clear white, like the H. Cartusiana ; sometimes with¬ 
out bands, or with from one to five broader or narrower 
ones : aperture roundish crescent-shaped, produced on the 
front part, slightly reflected, with the margin ori the inside 
brown or clear white, and rarely with intermediate shades 
or furnished with an elevated rim round it: diameter hardly 
an inch; height about three quarters. 
Those which have the white inside margin are usually 
smaller: and when young there arc only three volutions 
which are placed quite flat upon the larger one, distin¬ 
guishable only by the circular line, as in the Nerita littoralis. 
In this very young state we think Mr. Brown has figured it 
in the Wernerian Transactions, pi. 24. f. 8, under the name 
of H. elliptica. 
Much confusion has been spread in the careless quota¬ 
tions of Da Costa’s figures of this shell. Maton and Rackett, 
in attempting to arrange the varieties, have included that 
with the white lip among those which are banded and have 
a brown lip, omitting it in its proper place. Mr. Rackett, 
in his Dorset Catalogue, has omitted some of the figures 
in his own plate* substituting the fig. 6. of Da Costa, which 
is the Bulla fontinalis. Mr. Dillwyn has omitted the figure 
of Da Costa with the white lip, aud copied Mr. Racketts 
error in the reference to the plates of the Dorset Cata¬ 
logue, including also the Bulla fontinalis. 
Common in hedges and gardens, v. v. 
41. Helix hortensis. Garden Snail-shell. 
Lister , pi. 49. f. 47— Pennant , pi. 87- f. 3 —Da Costa , 
pi. 4. f. 1 —Dorset Cat. pi. 20. f. 1— Donovan , pi. l3l. 
Shell somewhat globular, semitransparent, covered with 
an irregularly creased and wrinkled skin: spires four, the 
upper-one placed a little on one side, more or less distinctly 
but obscurely striate circularly: color dirty white or yel¬ 
lowish with generally four tawny hands, often variously 
interrupted and presenting a marbled appearance: aperture 
roundish crescent-shaped, produced in front, with a clear 
white slightly reflected margin extending over the pillar, 
where it sometimes : forms a small perforation: diameter 
more than aii inch, _ ■ . '' 
Variety 
