He also observed that other shells were so nearly allied to living forms that it was difficult not to suspect that they had been connected by a common bond of descent.
A greenish rock, in which there is much magnesia; usually contains diallage, which is nearly allied to the simple mineral called serpentine.
Leidy describes a gigantic quadruped, called by him Titanotherium, nearly allied to the Palaeotherium, but larger than any of the species found in the Paris gypsum.
The Coelenterates of the Eocene are represented principally by Corals, mostly of types identical with or nearly allied to those now in existence.
Nearly allied to the latter of these is the Elasmosaurus of the American Cretaceous, which combined the long tail of the Ichthyosaur with the long neck of the Plesiosaur.
The latter genus is nearly allied to the Archoeocidaris of the Carboniferous, so that this Permian form belongs to a characteristically Palæozoic type.
Scopelidae, nearly allied to the salmon and trout family, which is salted, dried, and eaten as a relish.
Nearly allied to these is the smaller and more weasel-like Lyncodon patagonicus.
Nearly allied are Arctogale leucotis, with a wide distribution, and A.
THIS very curious animal is nearly allied to the Seal, but is of much greater size, being frequently eighteen feet in length, and from ten to twelve feet in girth.
THE RING OUZEL differs from the fieldfare and redwing, to which it is nearly allied, in being a summer visitor to the British islands, instead of a winter one.
A siliceous mineral, nearly allied to chalcedony and flint, but less homogeneous and simple in texture.
The genera are, in great part, the same or nearly allied; but the species are rarely identical, and are often very unlike, as in the case of the American badger and that of Europe.
Among living species they are most nearly allied to the lepidosteus, or bony pike of the North American rivers.
I have to mention that a species of Sciadophyllum, nearly allied to Sc.
I found a new species of Hakea, having linear lanceolate leaves with axillary fascicules of small brownish flowers: it was an arborescent shrub, from three to six feet high; and is nearly allied to H.
It is either Sarcocephalus or Zuccarinia, or nearly allied to them.
This conclusion becomes still more certain on comparing the markings with those of a nearly allied genus; without such comparison the separation of the genus Macrosila, Boisd.
The systematist frequently distinguishes between two nearly allied species, as for instance in the Lycænidæ, chiefly by the position of certain insignificant black spots on the under side of the wing (P.
The large spines of this species have the same form and structure as in the preceding, nearly allied species, but are more numerous and more irregularly branched and disposed.
The genus Clathrocanium isnearly allied to Dictyophimus and Lithomelissa, and, together with these two genera, may be regarded as surviving representatives of the oldest and most primitive forms of Dicyrtida.
The origin of these tubes is rather variable, since they arise in nearly allied species, sometimes independently of one another, at other times united at the base.
According to Lindley, the species is nearly allied to his O.
This is a robust and stately plant, nearly allied to O.
Let us examine a somewhat different set of facts in the case of another pair of nearly allied species Lychnis diurna and vespertina.
But as they are some of them by far the best pieces in the collection--a proof that poetry and madness are nearly allied--we will select two which tend to illustrate the awful state of the writer's mind.
Nearly allied to this is another atmospheric phenomenon, occasionally seen among the mountains, though of rare occurrence.
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