A Manual of Conchology / According to the System Laid Down by Lamarck, with the Late Improvements by De Blainville. Exemplified and Arranged for the Use of Students.

by Thomas Wyatt

S. radiatus. The radiated Solecurtus.

Species flat, small, with an interior ridge running down obliquely from the summit to the abdominal margin.

S. strigilatus. The strigilated Solecurtus.

Species more cylindrical, without interior ridge.

S. legumen. The Pease-pod Solecurtus. Pl. [31], fig. 6.

Species still more elongated and sub-cylindrical.

4. Glycimeris. Two species.

Distinguished from the Solen by being without teeth at the hinge.

Shell covered with epidermis, slightly irregular, elongated, gaping at the two extremities, equivalve, inequilateral; the summits but little marked; hinge toothless; a longitudinal callosity; ligament exterior, affixed to very projecting callosities on the shortest side of the shell; two distinct muscular impressions.

Glycimeris margaritacea.