Buccinum

_ A purple colour obtained from certain shell fish, such as Buccinum and Purpura.

Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer Ethel M. Mairet

[2] Sometimes from the _Buccinum undulatum_ [Möll], found from Nantucket to Labrador, and occasionally perhaps from the _Natica heros_ [Say] found from New York to Labrador, and the _Natica duplicata_ found from

Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia Ashbel Woodward

This estimation seems to go back to the time of the Phoenicians, who were excessively fond of the redder shades of purple which they obtained also from several varieties of shell-fish and comprehended under two species; one (Buccinum) found in cliffs, and the other (Pelagia) which was captured at sea.

Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

Buccinum the juice of the other fish that dyed purple, 100 hs. = 16 s. 1 3/4 d.

Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

(_Buccinum undatum_) creeping, in the Penny Cyclopædia, v.  9, p.  454, col.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

Buccinum vibex, buccinum trivittatum and obsoletum are associated with the preceding species.

Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds 1858

_Buccinum_ should be used after that from the _Murex_ had been applied.

History of Phoenicia George Rawlinson 1857

The _Murex_ alone gave a dye that was firm, and reckoned moderately good; but the _Buccinum_ alone was weak, and easily washed out.

History of Phoenicia George Rawlinson 1857

They belong, mainly, to the two allied families of the _Murex_ and the _Buccinum_ or _Purpura_.

History of Phoenicia George Rawlinson 1857

The following marine shells occur mixed with the freshwater species above enumerated: -- Buccinum undatum, Littorina littorea, Nassa reticulata, Purpura lapillus, Tellina solidula, Cardium edule, and fragments of some others.

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836