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Phylloxera

in entomology, attach themselves to various plants, on the juice of which they feed, and which ily Phylloxeridæ, allied to the Aphis sub-order Homoptera, the type of a famthis family, which, since 1865, has comthe juice of which they feed, and which attach themselves to various plants, on trix is the name given to an insect of they often injure or destroy. P. vastathis family, which, since 1865, has committed great devastation in the vineon the roots of the vines which, robbed of yards of France. They produce galle nutriment, soon die. atlantica is known as Portuguese man marine animals of the class Hydrozoa, face of the ocean. Numerous tentacles atlantica is known as Portuguese man of war. They possess one or more large air sacs, by which they float on the surface of the ocean. Numerous tentacles are the nutritive individuals of the coldepend from the under side, one class ony, the longer, which in a Physalia five long are capable of being short and the other long. The shorter or six inches lor extended to 12 or 18 feet, possess a reably used to stun their prey.

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