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Any of various extinct, chiefly carboniferous trees related to the modern-day herbaceous horsetails

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  • No, non si parla di allucinazioni da sbornia; ne si tratta di calamite da frigorifero, ma di una nuova e sconosciuta forza della natura.
  • Hibernicus divested of the leaflets, goes on to describe the apparent calamite of the formation.
  • The apparent expansion, however, in the Old Red specimen may be simply a result of compression in its upper part: the under part certainly much resembles, in the dome-like...
  • Mr. Duncan accompanies his description with a figure of the organism described, which, however, rather resembles the bulb of a liliaceous plant than the root of a...
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