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  • It has been called Sigillaria, because it has marks like seals

    The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884

  • At last, however, Mr. Binney found the specimen growing to the bottom of the trunk of one of the fossil trees with spotted stems, called Sigillaria; and so proved that this curious pitted stone is a piece of fossil root, or rather underground stem, like that which we found in the primrose, and that the little pits or dents in it are scars where the rootlets once were given off.

    The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884

  • Cycadeæ, -- should bear leaves scarce distinguishable from fern fronds, may well reconcile us to an apparent anomaly in the case of an ancient plant such as Sigillaria, whose entire constitution, so far as it has been ascertained, appears to have been anomalous.

    The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829

  • Rabirius was defended by Cicero in one of his orations, which is extant.] [Footnote 497: The Sigillaria was a street in Rome, where a fair was held after the Saturnalia, which lasted seven days; and toys, consisting of little images and dolls, which gave their name to the street and festival, were sold.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • [_Sigillaria, _ related to modern-day club mosses.]

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • December 17th, and as the Sigillaria formed a continuation of it, the joyous celebration endured a whole week.

    The Customs of Old England

  • The portions of coal that contain impressions of the bark of Sigillaria and Lepidodendron allow the elongated, suberose tissue characteristic of such bark to be still more clearly seen.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various

  • This Sporus he carried about with him in a litter round the solemn assemblies and fairs of Greece, and afterwards at Rome through the Sigillaria [592], dressed in the rich attire of an empress; kissing him from time to time as they rode together.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • He ordered a car, plated with silver, and of very sumptuous workmanship, which was exposed for sale in the Sigillaria [497], to be purchased, and broken in pieces before his eyes.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • That very forest to which we went on that first day, and where we ate our luncheon from the trunk of a great petrified Sigillaria, had been discovered by Mr. Muir and his daughter a few years before as they were riding over the sandy plateau.

    Our Friend John Burroughs Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 1914

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