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A genus of fungi having the under side of the pileus or cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. A few are edible, and others very poisonous.
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A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties.
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A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous ingabundant in tropical America.
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A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques).
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A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.
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A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).
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A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.
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A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet.
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