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The fruit bodies are small, with convex to flat, reddish to brownish caps up to 15 mm (0.6 in) in diameter, set atop thin cylindrical stems up to 4–7.5 cm (1.6–3.0 in) long with a rooting base. A characteristic microscopic feature of the mushroom is the sharp, thin-walled cystidia found on the stipe, gills , and cap.
Native Tongues (1982) is a book written by Charles Berlitz, a linguist and polyglot, known for his language teaching courses. It is primarily made up of a list of words in various languages, their etymology, and questions of a speculative nature about these words.
Pinecone fishes are small and unusual marine fish of the family Monocentridae. The family contains just four species in two genera, one of which is monotypic. Their distribution is limited to tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific. Pinecone fishes are popular subjects of public aquaria, but are both expensive and considered a ...
Berlitz was born in New York City.He was the grandson of Maximilian Berlitz, who founded the Berlitz Language Schools.As a child, Charles was raised in a household in which (by his father's orders) every relative and servant spoke to Charles in a different language: he reached adolescence speaking eight languages fluently.
It is a small species rarely exceeding 5.5 cm (2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) in height, with a cap usually smaller than an adult's fingernails: 0.5 to 2 cm (1 ⁄ 4 to 3 ⁄ 4 in)—although it has been known to reach up to 4 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in). [17] It is semicircular or kidney-shaped, flat on the lower surface and rounded on the top. [17]
Berlitz started in 1878, when Maximilian Berlitz was in need of an assistant French instructor; he employed a Frenchman by the name of Nicholas Joly, only soon to discover that Joly barely spoke English. However, due to illness, Berlitz asked Joly to take over his classes, and teach by pointing at objects, repeating the French word for them ...
Young trees up to 5–10 years old bear juvenile leaves, which are very different, single (not paired), 2–4 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long, glaucous blue-green; the adult leaves appear mixed with juvenile leaves from the fourth or fifth year on, replacing it fully by around the tenth year. Juvenile leaves are also produced in regrowth ...
Each plant may be a few inches tall, and pine-cone-shaped or cylindrical. The plant above ground is almost entirely made up of its inflorescence, a tightly packed column of thick cup-shaped flowers. The groundcone produces haustoria which penetrate the roots of its host and provide it with water and nutrients.