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Helix pomatia
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Helix pomatia

  • HENRY CECIL1 

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I HAVE found this freely in the hedge-bottoms of Hertfordshire lanes, where the soil was a dark alluvial mould, certainly not cretaceous. I suspect that even in its known localities it is very local.

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