Dr. Edwards writes of the substance that had so completely, or beautifully -- if beauty is completeness -- been identified as nostoc -- "It turned out to be lung-tissue also.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

I told him that the phlegm was a vegetable called nostoc, and he thereupon concluded that too much learning had turned my brain, and, fully persuaded of his own complete knowledge of nature, was pleased to be very facetious at my expense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure] Reference

In looking up the subject, myself, I have read only of greenish nostoc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Or we've arrived at one of the oldest of the exclusionists 'conventions -- or nostoc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Memel may have had such an experience may be indicated in that Ehrenberg found in it gelatinous matter, which he called "nostoc.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

To give completeness to "the proper explanation," it is said that Mr. Brandeis had identified the substance as "flesh-colored" nostoc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Or that, if often reported, grayish or whitish gelatinous substance is not nostoc, and is not spawn if occurring in times unseasonable for spawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

We are not told of nostoc, this time: it is said that the object contained numerous eggs of "some species of Chironomus, from which larvae soon emerged.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

We shall have many data of gelatinous substance said to have fallen from the sky: almost always the exclusionists argue that it was only nostoc, an Alga, or, in some respects, a fungous growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Now, I can't say that nostoc is always greenish, any more than I can say that blackbirds are always black, having seen a white one: we shall quote a scientist who knew of flesh-colored nostoc, when so to know was convenient.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Mr. Brandeis 'communication, his feeling was of conviction that propriety had been re-established, or that the problem had been solved, as he expresses it: knowing Mr. Brandeis well, he had called upon that upholder of respectability, to see the substance that had been identified as nostoc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

In instances where testimony was not convincing that gelatinous matter had been seen to fall, it was said that the gelatinous substance was nostoc, and had been upon the ground in the first place: when the testimony was too good that it had fallen, it was said to be spawn that had been carried from one place to another in a whirlwind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

The Kentucky 'wonder' is no more or less than nostoc. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Unseasonableness for either spawn or nostoc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Tremeüa nostoc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference