The elements of conchology; or, natural history of shells. According to the Linnean system. With observations on modern arrangements / By Thomas Brown ... Illustrated with nine coloured engravings.
- Thomas Brown
- Date:
- 1816
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The elements of conchology; or, natural history of shells. According to the Linnean system. With observations on modern arrangements / By Thomas Brown ... Illustrated with nine coloured engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Genus 24th...-BUCCINUM. mal a Limax; shell univalve, spiral, gibbous; aperture ovate, terminating in a short canal leaning to the right, with a retuse beak or projection; pil-‘ lar~lip expanded. Linn, Syst, 323. Plate 8th, fig. 24th. The Buccina are divided by Linne into nine families: ^ampulla, &c. inflat- ed, rounded, thin, sub-diaphanous, and brittle; cassidea, caudata, &c. with a short, exerted, reflected beak, lip unarmed outwardly; ***cassidea, unguiculated, &c, lip aculated on the outside of the posterior part; in other respects resembling the last division; ****callosa, &c. pillar-lip dilated and thickened; *****dentrila,&c. piliar-lip appearing as if worn flat; ******]8evi- gata, &c. smooth, and not enumerated in the former divisions; =^*=^“'»^*angu- lar, and not included in the former divisions; ”*^*^**tapering, subulate, • and smooth.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29349564_0089.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
