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  • M. testa fusiformi-turrita; spira elata, conica; epidermide pallide olivaceo induta, rufo-fusca, pulcherrime maculata, maculis saepe in lineis undulatis longitudinalibus dispositis; anfractibus planis, longitudinaliter plicatis, plicis aequalibus regularibus subdistantibus, ad suturas nodulosis; apertura oblongo-ovata, antice effusa; labio subincrassato; labro simplici, acuto.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • V. testa turbinata, globoso-conica, umbilicata, spira mediocri erosa nodulosa, epidermide tenui pallide fusco-viridi obtecta, ad apicem purpurascente; anfractibus convexis, lineolis transversis et longitudinalibus elevatis decussatis, anfractu ultimo ad basin sulcis impressis spiralibus instructo; apertura ovata, antice subeffusa; labio vix reflexo.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • V. testa turbinata, globoso-conica, late umbilicata, spira elatiuscula, epidermide tenui fusco-viridi obtecta; anfractibus convexis, ad suturas subplanatis, faciis tribus vel quatuor angustis olivaceo-viridibus transversis ornatis; anfractu ultimo inflato, lineis duabus impressis ad peripheriam instructo; apertura ovata, postice subangulata; labio simplici; labro acuto.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • A large Epeira of the same division with Epeira tuberculata and conica is extremely common, especially in dry situations.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • A large Epeira of the same division with Epeira tuberculata and conica is extremely common, especially in dry situations.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • _Silene conica_ completely divided, each section bearing half an anther, exactly as happens in _Polygalaceæ_.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • "Nouvelles pensées de Galilée sur les mécaniques" (Paris, 1639), both translations; "Cogitata physico-mathematica" (Paris, 1644); "Euclidis elementorum libri, Apollonii Pergæ conica, Sereni de sectione coni, etc."

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • A large Epeira of the same division with Epeira tuberculata and conica is extremely common, especially in dry situations.

    Chapter II 1909

  • _Silene conica_, which was found near Hitchin in 1875.

    Hertfordshire Herbert Winckworth Tompkins 1901

  • With other species I have limited myself to four successive years with the same negative result, as with spinage, the Moldavian dragon-head, (_Dracocephalum moldavicum_), and two species of corn catch-fly (_Silene conica_ and _S. conoidea_).

    Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

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