[Fictionary] crottle

[lindafowens at netzero.net]

HI, all, been away from my computer for a while--return of the bad back, but it's getting better.  Anyway, when I was a kid, I got a cartooning book out of the library that said crottles were the crosses on the eyes of unconscious figures.  As an adult, I can't find this book or a cartooning or other reference to crottles as anything but some sort of fungus or lichen. LInda

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Pierre Abbat <phma at leaf.dragonflybsd.org>
To: fictionary at swarpa.net
Subject: Re: [Fictionary] crottle
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 13:41:36 -0400

Forgot to mention: Geosiphon (and there's no G. khasiana, only G. pyriformis) 
is a fungus that lives in symbiosis with a cyanobacterium, but is not 
considered a lichen, for two reasons: the cyanobacterium cells are inside, not 
between, the fungus cells, and it belongs to a different division than the 
lichens, which are all ascos or basidios.

Pierre
-- 
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li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci

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