land-lizards

Updated: May 25, 2025

The eggs of our salamanders or land-lizards are deposited beneath the moss on some damp rock, without any gelatinous envelope; they are but few in number, and the anxious mamma may sometimes be found coiled in a circle around them, like the symbolic serpent of eternity.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861