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This membrane may be a chemical one, a pellicular precipitate like that which is formed by the contact of two membranogenous liquids.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane

Besides the other spaces are definite rounded or oval vacuoles with a permanent pellicular wall termed by Schutt “pusules”; these open by a duct or ducts into the longitudinal groove.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various