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One of the cases containing the spores, etc., of flowerless plants, especially of algae.

ccepted thee concerning this thing. Gen. xix. 21. The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. Num. x. 29.

Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.

Belonging to the confervae.

Like, or related to, the confervae. Loudon.

Pertaining to confervae; consisting of, or resembling, the confervae. Yon exiguous pool's confervous scum. O. W. Holmes.

A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.

Pertaining to the order Coniferae, of which the pine tree is the type.

An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a traety; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convetion between two governments. This convention, I th…

alled in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. (Logic).

The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals. Haeckel.

A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure. Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness. Phaer.

nsiderably from that form; thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consist of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it.

Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake family.

A filamentous fresh-water alga (Conferva rivularis of Linnaeus, Rhizoclonium rivulare of Kutzing).

A pack of hounds. Milton. A cry more tunable Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn. Shak.

ard saw the fairest provinces of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael. Prescott.

he larva of an insect that bores into the pith and kills currant bushes; specif., the larvae of a small clearwing moth (Ægeria tipuliformis) and a longicorn beetle (Psenocerus supernotatus). -- Currant worm (Zoöl.), an insect larva which eats the leaves or fruit of the currant. The most injurious are the currant sawfl…

A variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid.

One of the Cyprinodontidae, a family of fishes including the killifishes or minnows. See Minnow.