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Show 1881.] 'LIGHTNING' A N D 'PORCUPINE' EXPEDITIONS. 709 There are at least a score of unnecessary synonyms; and, according to Graells, this common eatable shell-fish is known by fourteen local names in different parts of Northern Lusitania. The ancients imagined that such shell-fish were most in season if taken when the moon was full. A somewhat similar idea seems to have been entertained in our own times-so late indeed as the 17th century ; for inDryden's 'Wild Gallant' we find Justice Price boasting that he had in his larder " codes, dainty fat codes, that came in the night." The shells were then used for making lime. Ray, in his ' Itinerary,' 1662, says:-"After travelling on two miles further (from Laugharne, in Carmarthenshire) we saw them burning Cockle-shells, thereof to make Lime. The Manner thus. They make an Hole in the Ground, therein they put Furze, upon that Wood, upon the Wood small Stone Coal, and then a Layer of Cockle-shells, and so Shells and Coals, S. S.S. [stratum super stratum, as the editor Derhain suggests], and then put Fire on them ; these burnt make excellent Lime." 11. CARDIUM MINIMUM, Philippi. C. minimum, Phil. Moll. Sic. i. p. 51 ; ii. p. 38, t. xiv. f. 18 : B. C. ii. p. 292 ; v. p. 182, pi. xxxv. f. 6. 'Lightning' Exp. St. 2, 5. 'Porcupine' Exp. 1869: St. 1, 3, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 18, 23 a, 47, 61, 65, Little Minch. 1870 : Atl. 1, 2, 3, 9, Vigo B., 13, 16, 17, 17 a, Setubal B., 24, 25, C. Sagres, 26-30, 36 ; Med. 45, Cartagena B., 50, 51, 55, Benzert Road, Rasel Amoush, Adventure Bank, off Rinaldo's Chair. DistriBution. Siberian coast, Hammerfest to G. Egina, Adriatic, Ostend {Malzine) 1; 5-645 fms. Fossil. Upper Tertiaries and Post-tertiary: Scandinavia, Scotland, Italy, Rhodes ; 0-130 ft. Syn. See ' British Conchology,' ii. p. 293. 12. C A R D I U M NORVEGICUM, Spengler. G. norvegicum, Spengl. Skrivt. Selsk. v. pt. 1, p. 42 : B. C. ii. p. 294 ; v. p. 182, pi. xxxv. f. 7. ' Porcupine ' Exp. 1870 : Atl. St. Vigo B., Setubal B., C. Sagres, Tangier B. (var. rotunda) ; Med. G. Bona, Benzert Road, Rasel Amoush (var. oBlonga). DistriBution. Finmark and the Faroe Isles to the Eastern Mediterranean, Adriatic, Madeira, Canaries ; 0-50 fms. Fossil. Upper Tertiaries : British Isles, S. France, Italy. Post-tertiary: Scandinavia. England, Calabria : 0-1360 ft. Family XII. CHAMID^E. CHAMA GRYPHOIDES, Linne. C. gryphoides, L. S. N. p. 1139 ; Poli, Test. Sic. ii. t. xxiii. f. 3, 15, 20. 'Porcupine' Exp. 1870: Med. St. Capo de Gata, Cartagena B., Rasel Amoush (var. dissimilis), Adventure Bank. The variety tints-' trorsa or gryphina occurred with the typical or usual form. |