. The shell book . e Great Gray Slug (L. maximus, Linn.) is five or sixinches long when it stretches itself out at full length to rest aftera toilsome journey after food. The slimy trail is an exudationof mucus, from a gland. The rounded body is ashen or palebrown, alternately striped and dotted. M. Moouin-Tandon noticed one rainy day in the botanicalgardens at Toulouse, two Limax maximus approaching a rottenapple from different directions. He changed the position of theapple several times, placing it at a sufficient distance to be surethey could not see it, but they always hit it off correctl
. The shell book . e Great Gray Slug (L. maximus, Linn.) is five or sixinches long when it stretches itself out at full length to rest aftera toilsome journey after food. The slimy trail is an exudationof mucus, from a gland. The rounded body is ashen or palebrown, alternately striped and dotted. M. Moouin-Tandon noticed one rainy day in the botanicalgardens at Toulouse, two Limax maximus approaching a rottenapple from different directions. He changed the position of theapple several times, placing it at a sufficient distance to be surethey could not see it, but they always hit it off correctly, afterraising their heads and moving their long tentacles in everydirection. It then occured to him to hold the apple in the air,some centimetres above the head of the Limax. They perceivedwhere it was and raised their heads and lengthened their necks,endeavouring to find some solid body on which to climb to theirfood. — Cooke. The senses of smell and sight are lost in slugs from whichthe tentacles are cut. 282. \VOOD-BORIXG BIVALVES Watering-pot Shell, Aspergillitm of wood bored by Ship-worm, Teredo nai-alis. 3 \Vood-eating Piddock, Xylopkaga dorsalis. 4 Same, showing depth of burrows, and position, across the grain.
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