medus

Drawn by some strange force, from the unfathomable depths below, eerie shapes sought the surface, blinking glassily at the unfamiliar glare they had exchanged for their native gloom --- uncouth creatures bedight with tasselled fringes like weed-growths waving around them, fathom-long, medus with coloured spots like eyes clustering all over their transparent substance, wriggling worm-like forms of such elusive matter that the smallest exposure to the sun melted them, and they were not.

Through the Magic Door Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1907

Interim, to Valentinus Pacaeus, _Ut concedam faetidas illas sordes quibus purgatae fuerunt vestrae ecclesiae, inrebus medus posse censeri: earum tamen restitutio eritne res media?

The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

Entirely white (natural size, often larger).] = Hydnum caput-medusæ = Bull.

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