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Shell globose, brown or yellow, with a check or willow leaf pattern, and a single dark band on the periphery.

OUR BRITISH SNAILSJOHN WILLIAM HORSLEY

Two globose retractile vesicles issue from the ninth and tenth segments of those of Arctia chrysorrhea, &c.

When young, the stem is globose, afterward becoming club-shaped or cylindrical.

The larva has a soft fusiform body, surmounted by a somewhat globose head.

Some clusters show twenty or more stipitate, globose sporangia, conjoined by their distinct but coherent stems.

THE NORTH AMERICAN SLIME-MOULDSTHOMAS H. (THOMAS HUSTON) MACBRIDE

The spores are sub-globose, amber-colored, faintly trivittate, and have a finely pustulated or granular surface.

BEAUTIFUL FERNSDANIEL CADY EATON

The varieties of serrated leaves, the glandless, and some having globose glands on the leaves, and others with reniform glands.

The heads of both are formed with spiral wire; the shortest being globose, the other somewhat flattened.

The flowers are three inches long, forming a compact globose head.

Globose bodies, vertical or slightly everted collars tooled in a series of ridged bands, with tooled rims at top.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985