There are few wild land mammals although there is an endemic sub-species of the Common Vole, the Orkney Vole or Cuttick, ( Microtus arvalis orcadensis ) found only in the Orkney archipelago.

Shapinsay and Hoy are the only two larger Orkney islands that lack the Orkney vole ( Microtus arvalis orcadensis ).

Some plant species also exhibit dimorphism in which the females are significantly larger than the males, such as in the moss Dicranum and the liverwort Sphaerocarpos.

A non-vascular plant, liverwort, is also found on the sandstone surfaces throughout Starved Rock State Park.

Marsupella profunda ( Western Rustwort ) is a liverwort endemic to Europe and known only from Portugal, ( Azores and Madeira ), Spain ( Canary Islands ) and Great Britain ( Cornwall ).

The liverwort was obtained from Mt.

Leitgeb was among the first to recognize and appreciate the significance of development and reproductive morphology as a guide to distinguishing liverwort groups.

The newts will require an area to haul out of the water from time to time ; this can be provided with a piece of driftwood, a " turtle dock " sold by pet stores, an " island " ( a patch of soil or gravel with sphagnum moss and liverwort ), or with terra cotta pots filled with aquarium gravel.

) The liverwort Pellia epiphylla has the gametophyte as the dominant generation.

In botany, " seta " refers to the stalk supporting the capsule of a moss, hornwort or liverwort, and supplying it with nutrients.

Other differences are not universal for all mosses and liverworts, but the occurrence of leaves arranged in three ranks, the presence of deep lobes or segmented leaves, or a lack of clearly differentiated stem and leaves all point to the plant being a liverwort.

Other differences are not universal for all mosses and all liverworts ; but the lack of clearly differentiated stem and leaves in thallose species, or in leafy species the presence of deeply lobed or segmented leaves and the presence of leaves arranged in three ranks, all point to the plant being a liverwort.

Cells in a typical liverwort plant each contain only a single set of genetic information, so the plant's cells are haploid for the majority of its life cycle.

Another unusual feature of the liverwort life cycle is that sporophytes ( i. e. the diploid body ) are very short-lived, withering away not long after releasing spores.

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Examples include the plants liverwort ; snakeroot, an antidote for snake venom ; lungwort ; bloodroot ; toothwort ; and wormwood, to expel intestinal parasites.

Examples include the plants liverwort ; snakeroot, an antidote for snake venom ; lungwort ; bloodroot ; toothwort ; and wormwood, to expel intestinal parasites.

This valley has one of the more important moss and liverwort communities in the southern UK.

Cavicularin is a natural phenolic secondary metabolite isolated from the liverwort Cavicularia densa.

Lunularia cruciata or crescent-cup liverwort is a liverwort of order Marchantiales, and the only species in the genus Lunularia and family Lunulariaceae.

One simple thalloid liverwort is not photosynthetic.

Two additional families were formerly included within the Metzgeriales, but since have been transferred to other classes of liverwort.

Missiles are very valuable weapons, but they also have their too little known limitations.

The aircraft could be used to destroy other mobile, fleeting, and imprecisely located targets as well as the known, fixed and hardened targets which can also be destroyed by missile.

Back at the Kaiser's Fountain, I walked left to the streetcar stop and rode up the hill -- any car will do -- past the Column of Constantine, also known as the Burnt Column, at the top on my right.

We now have not only what has been called over here the comedy of menace but we also have horror jokes, magazines known as Horror Comics, and sick comedians.

We pointed out that emotional excitement may lead to psychosomatic disorders and neurotic symptoms, particularly in certain types of personality, but it is also known that the reliving of a strong emotion ( `` abreaction '' ) may cure a battle neurosis.

The process in which the outcome of any one stage is known only statistically is also of interest, although for chemical reactor design it is not as important as the deterministic process.

The Roman Catholic Church sanctions only abstention or the rhythm method, also known as the use of the infertile or safe period.

She knew also that I was unmarried and without a single known relative.

Alabama is also known as the " Heart of Dixie.

This period had also known Augustine of Hippo, Nonius Marcellus and Martianus Capella among many others.

As sun-god and god of light, Apollo was also known by the epithets Aegletes ( ; Αἰγλήτης, Aiglētēs, from αἴγλη, " light of the sun "), Helius ( ; Ἥλιος, Helios, literally " sun "), Phanaeus ( ; Φαναῖος, Phanaios, literally " giving or bringing light "), and Lyceus ( ; Λύκειος, Lukeios, from Proto-Greek * λύκη, " light ").

For this he was also known as Parnopius ( ; Παρνόπιος, Parnopios, from πάρνοψ, " locust ") and to the Romans as Culicarius ( ; from Latin culicārius, " of midges ").

Afroasiatic ( alternatively Afro-Asiatic ), also known as Hamito-Semitic, is a large language family, including about 375 living languages.

The oldest known caecilian is Eocaecilia micropodia, also from Arizona, while the earliest salamander is Beiyanerpeton jianpingensis from the Late Jurassic of northeastern China.

It is also known as Alyeska, the " great land ", an Aleut word derived from the same root.

Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts.

He is also well known for advocating and taking psychedelics.

Alkanes ( also known as paraffins or saturated hydrocarbons ) are chemical compounds that consist only of hydrogen and carbon atoms and are bonded exclusively by single bonds ( i. e., they are saturated compounds ) without any cycles ( or loops ; i. e., cyclic structure ).

In music an " answer " ( also known as countersubject ) is the technical name in counterpoint for the repetition or modification by one part or instrument of a theme proposed by another.

In human – computer interaction, computer accessibility ( also known as Accessible computing ) refers to the accessibility of a computer system to all people, regardless of disability or severity of impairment.

Asphalt or or, also known as bitumen, is the sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits ; it is a substance classed as a pitch.

* An argument of a function, also known as an independent variable

In chemistry and physics, the atomic number ( also known as the proton number ) is the number of protons found in the nucleus of an atom and therefore identical to the charge number of the nucleus.

Nevertheless, in spite of Rutherford's estimation that gold had a central charge of about 100 ( but was element Z = 79 on the periodic table ), a month after Rutherford's paper appeared, Antonius van den Broek first formally suggested that the central charge and number of electrons in an atom was exactly equal to its place in the periodic table ( also known as element number, atomic number, and symbolized Z ).

The aardvark has been known to sleep in a recently excavated ant nest, which also serves as protection from its predators.