sigillaria

Gift-giving was not confined to the day of the Sigillaria.

The Sigillaria on December 23 was a day of gift-giving.

Some emperors were noted for their devoted observance of the Sigillaria.

A sigillarius was a person who made and sold sigillaria, perhaps as an offshoot of pottery manufacture.

The Sigillaria attached to the Saturnalia may have been a mercatus in this sense.

The figurines that were exchanged as gifts (sigillaria) may also have represented token substitutes.

They were the roots of coal forest lycopsid trees such as Sigillaria and Lepidodendron.

Some have suggested that Sigillaria was monocarpic, meaning that it died after reproduction, though this is not proven.

One author thinks that Sigillaria favored the intermediate areas between levee habitat and swamp habitat.

The tree-like lycopodiophyte Sigillaria is preserved in situ.

In ancient Roman culture, sigillaria were pottery or wax figurines given as traditional gifts during the Saturnalia.

There were tall grasses, ferns, lycopods, besides sigillaria, asterophyllites, now scarce plants, but then the species might be counted by thousands.

They are closely related to other extinct Lycopsid genera, Sigillaria and Lepidendropsis.

The celebrations included a school holiday, the making and giving of small presents (saturnalia et sigillaricia) and a special market (sigillaria).

Melting back into my algae bed and swearing it felt soggy, I fixed on the veins of a sigillaria and poured thoughts at her.

They are generally found associated with hollows of the Lepidodendron and Sigillaria tree genera, for which their fossils are contained within.

Brongniart, Ad., on Sigillaria.

These included Lepidodendron (with its fruit cone called Lepidostrobus), Halonia, Lepidophloios and Sigillaria.

On page 173 the author writes: "The Stigmaria or Sigillaria, whichever name is to be retained... was a tree that undoubtedly grew in water.")

In the dialogue of Macrobius's Saturnalia, the interlocutor Praetextatus says that sigillaria were substitutes for the sacrificial victims of the primitive religious rituals.

Sigillaria as a proper noun was also the name for the last day of the Saturnalia, December 23, and for a place where sigillaria were sold.

Lepidodendron has many spiral rows of lozenge-shaped leaf scars, while Sigillaria has long rows of elliptical scars; both are very common fossils in association with coal measures.

The lepidodendrales comprises three main genera, Lepidodendron, Lepidophloios, and Sigillaria, distinguished on the basis of the ratio of scale width to height - they are otherwise identical.

Lycopsid tree stems: Asolanus, Bothrodendron, Cyclostigma, Lepidophloios, Sigillaria, Sublepidophloios, Syringodendron (de-barked)

The swamp-loving lycopod trees of the Carboniferous, such as Lepidodendron and Sigillaria, were replaced by the more advanced conifers, which were better adapted to the changing climatic conditions.