. Beautiful shells : their nature, structure, and uses familiarly explained : with directions for collecting, cleaning, and arranging them in the cabinet and descriptions of the most remarkable species. Shells; Shells. 140 Beautiful SUls. up sliop till tlio return of solar heat. Wlien in motion it carries its sliell balanced obliquely on its bact, and keeps advancing and retracting its ten- tacles. It is quite as destructive to vegetation as the slug. We should have enough to do to describe all the species and varieties, for of Helices alone ^Y0 C. 6-6. 9-10. 11-12. 13-U. 6-G. Yitrina pclluclc
. Beautiful shells : their nature, structure, and uses familiarly explained : with directions for collecting, cleaning, and arranging them in the cabinet and descriptions of the most remarkable species. Shells; Shells. 140 Beautiful SUls. up sliop till tlio return of solar heat. Wlien in motion it carries its sliell balanced obliquely on its bact, and keeps advancing and retracting its ten- tacles. It is quite as destructive to vegetation as the slug. We should have enough to do to describe all the species and varieties, for of Helices alone ^Y0 C. 6-6. 9-10. 11-12. 13-U. 6-G. Yitrina pclluclcla ^thc Transparent Glass Bubble Shell), Mailer. 7-8. Zonites cellarius (the Cellar Snail), Hid. 9-10. Z. alliarius (the Garlic Snail), Hid. 11-12. Z. nitidulus (the Dull Snail), Bra^arnaud. 13-14. Z. purus (the Delicate Snail), Alder. may count at least forty. The Vitrina pcUuclda, or transparent glassy snail (Figs. 5 and G), found among the putrescent leaves, moss, and decaying wood of plantations and hedge-bottoms, and also under stones, is an exceedingly thin, transparent, glossy, smooth, and fragile watery-green shell, through which the mantle of the animal within is reflected. It is elliptical in form, with three and a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Adams, H. G. (Henry Gardiner), 1811 or 12-1881; Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984, former owner. DSI; Roper, Clyde F. E. , 1937- , donor. DSI. London : Groombridge and Sons
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