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  • ‘Brachialaria’, a ‘Pluteus’, is competent to produce the Echinoderm, which is so widely different from it; if

    Essays 2007

  • PLUTEUS Fr. In the genus _Pluteus_ the volva and annulus are both wanting, the gills are usually free from the stem, and the stem is easily broken out from the substance of the cap, reminding one in some cases of a ball and socket joint.

    Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

  • But ah, if I might have gone down like Orpheus to Tartarus, or as once Odysseus, or Alcides of yore, I too would speedily have come to the house of Pluteus, that thee perchance I might behold, and if thou singest to Pluteus, that I might hear what is thy song.

    Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878

  • These remarkable hyper-metamorphoses remind us of the metamorphosis of the embryo of Echinoderms into the Pluteus-and Bipinnaria-forms of the starfish, sea urchins and Holothurians; [24] of the Actinotrocha-form larva of the Sipunculoid worms; of the Tornaria into Balanoglossus, the worm; of the Cercaria-form larva of Distoma; of the Pilidium-form larva of Nemertes; and the larval forms of the leeches; [25] as well as the mite Pentastomum, and certain other aberrant mites, such as Myobia.

    Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

  • _Brachiolaria_, a _Pluteus_, is competent to produce the

    Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Pluteus larvae showing red-pigmented cells under white light reveal their skeletons under polarized light.

    SEEDMAGAZINE.COM boustead@seedmediagroup.com 2010

  • Copyright.] = Pluteus tomentosulus = Pk. -- This plant was described by Peck in the 32d

    Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

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