[Fictionary] crottle

Jean-Joseph Cote jjcote at alum.mit.edu
Wed Jun 1 22:29:57 EDT 2016


Possibly this?
https://www.amazon.com/Lexicon-Comicana-Mort-Walker/dp/059508902X?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

On 6/1/2016 9:44 AM, lindafowens at netzero.net wrote:
> 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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