How To Use Volva In A Sentence
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P. 6-10 cm. plane, margin striate, grey, yellow, brown, or white; g. pallid; s. 10-12 cm. narrowed upwards, minutely squamulose, volva large, margin free; sp.
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Amanitas have many superficial resemblances which can confuse amateur mushroom hunters: it is better to avoid veiled mushrooms with bulbed bases or volvas unless you are very experienced with mushrooms.
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To achieve this consistency, organisms must have a balance between robustness and evolvability, that is, between resisting and allowing change in their own internal states
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Amanita fulva is tawny and has a volva that is not constricted and often stains rusty brown.
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ENTOLOMA Fr. The volva and annulus are absent in this genus, the spores are rosy, the gills adnate to sinuate or adnexed, easily separating from the stem in some species.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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One or more of them lie on the upper part of the bulb, forming the "limb" of the "ocreate" volva.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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In their early stage they are enclosed in an egg-shaped veil (volva), having a gelatinous inner layer.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
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Was always interested in the volva and their cat-skin boots.
Viking: Odinn’s Child
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There's a detailed description of a volva and a prophecying session held to ask for advice about a famine pp 70-76 of the paperback.
Viking: Odinn’s Child
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-- Amanita phalloides, volva circumscissile, cap scaly, limb of volva not prominent, cap dark, scales white (natural size).
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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Volvariella is the third genus in which one encounters an obvious volva in the gilled fungi.
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On the other hand, if we assume that evolvability is a primitive property of matter, then we can presumably say that's just a brute fact about the world, requiring no intelligent designer.
Built in Capacity for Change is Called What?
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The volva around the base of the stem is formed by the splitting or bursting of the veil, and its different modes of rupture mark the several species.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
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Given the role that sexual reproduction already plays in evolvability, it is tempting to speculate that Tetrahymena are telling us that "junk DNA" serves a very useful role, but it is a role that is restricted to reproduction and evolution.
Another Protozoan and Front-Loading
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-- Amanita phalloides, volva circumscissile, concave bulb margined by definite short limb of volva; upper part of volva has disappeared from cap; cap whitish, tinged with brown.]
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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In some cases the volva is probably thinner than in others, and with the rapid expansion of the pileus in wet weather the scales would be smaller, or more floccose.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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-- Numerous instruments have been devised to determine the rate of vibration of different materials and structures, the most important being the _vitascope_, which has a revolvable cylinder, blackened with soot, and this being rotated at a certain speed, the stylus, which is attached to the vibrating body, in contact with the cylinder, will show the number per second, as well as the particular character of each oscillation.
Practical Mechanics for Boys
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But when the volva is thinner and of a looser texture, it splits transversely about the middle, circumscissile, and all or a large part of the upper half of the volva then clings to the cap, and is separated into patches.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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+Stem+ white, sometimes yellowish, 2 inches long, torn into scales, at first stuffed, then hollow; the attached base of the volva forms an oval-shaped bulb, which is bordered with concentric scales, that is, having a common centre, as a series of rings one within the other.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
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The young mushroom is covered initially with a thin membrane called the volva As the mushroom develops, the stem or stipe elongates, gradually pushing the cap upwards, which causes the volva to rupture and remain at the base of the stem.
Chapter 16
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The saccate volva is attached only near the base of the stem, grayish on the outer surface, and 20-35 mm wide.
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Gomphidius and Chroogomphus species have neither volvas nor skirtlike rings, although most species have a veil when young which leaves a fragmentary ring on the stem of the mushroom as it matures.
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The = volva = is circumscissile, the margin of the bulb not being clear cut and prominent, because there is much refuse matter and soil interwoven with the lower portion of the volva.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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Figure 58 and the small plant in Fig. 56, both from photographs of the sooty form of _Amanita phalloides_, show in a striking manner the typical condition of the circumscissile volva margining the broad saucer-like bulb as described for _Amanita mappa_.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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Another white plant is = A. volvata = Pk., which has elliptical spores, and is striate on the margin instead of sulcate.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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Again, selection operating on evolvability is not a new idea.
A Genomic Balancing Act
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Prepare to be told about sailing routes and prevailing weather conditions in the North Atlantic; pagan Norse baby naming traditions; Icelandic domestic life, including details of clothes, furniture, diet and agriculture; Norse witchcraft (seidr) and prophetesses (volva); Norse ship design; Irish social structure, monastic organisation, medicine and law.
Archive 2006-07-01
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The capacity for evolutionary innovation - or, in buzzword form, "evolvability" - is built into the fabric of life.
New Scientist - Online News
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The = pileus = is hemispherical to convex, and expanded, smooth, whitish, with a tinge of straw color, and covered with torn, thin floccose patches of the upper half of the circumscissile volva.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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+Cap+ 2 to 4 inches broad, ovate, campanulate, then spreading, obtuse, with a cuticle, sticky in moist weather, rarely sprinkled with one or two fragments of the volva, the margin regular, even.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
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A bacterial strain (named as 864) which is beneficial to mushroom growth has been isolated from the compost of Volvariella voluacea.
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This is the work that Behe has called "piddling", and claims that it has no relevance to the evolvability of complex biochemical...
Evolution of IC: Evolution of Hormone-Receptor Complexity - The Panda's Thumb
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In the very young plant the volva split transversely (in a circumscissile fashion) quite clearly, and the free limb is quite short and distant from the stem on the margin of the saucer-like bulb.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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The name volva is particularly given to that part of the universal veil which remains around the base of the stem, either sheathing it or appressed closely to it, or in torn fragments.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
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In addition to the lac operon, a number of other synthetic and natural genetic circuits have been analyzed for robustness and evolvability.
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In fact, the idea of evolvability, the capacity to evolve, is based on exactly this idea.
Random confusion by design? - The Panda's Thumb
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The variable condition in this one species _A. phalloides_, now splitting at the apex, now tearing up irregularly, now splitting in a definitely circumscissile manner, seems to bid defiance to any attempt to separate the species of _Amanita_ into groups based on the manner in which the volva ruptures.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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The name volva is particularly given to that part of the universal veil which remains around the base of the stem, either sheathing it or appressed closely to it, or in torn fragments.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
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So re the volva, perhaps the important thing was it being a WHITE catskin?
The Witch’s Cat
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And who knows whether our organismic suppleness, our deep evolvability, isn't related to our mental thirst for the new, and our hope that behind the door lies the best surprise yet?
Built in Capacity for Change is Called What?
