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In Dacetum, one of the Scolopendridae, there is no pocket-like infolding, the small tracheal tubes opening direct to the exterior on a large subcircular plate where their apertures fuse to form a complicated network.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

P. ovate then campan. glabrous, disc even, yellowish, striate and grey up to disc, 1 cm.; g. attached to a collar; s. 1-2 cm. white, pruinose; sp. subcircular, compressed, 12-14 broad, 3 thick.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

Cells oval, not very regularly arranged, in a continuous, foliaceous, subcircular frond; reticulated with oval spaces, not as wide as the interspaces.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by John MacGillivray

Caudal disc subcircular, with large scattered tubercles; snout subacute, slightly produced.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Sir James Emerson Tennent

P. 5-9 cm. oblique or subcircular, hard, whitish with brownish spot-like squamules, flesh white then yellowish; g. decur. not anastomosing behind, white tinged yellow; s. 2-3 cm. sublateral, ring fugacious, torn; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

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