The genus name combines the Ancient Greek "poikilos" "variegated" with "dryad" "tree-nymph". They are a particular type of dryad, which are a particular type of nymph. The team consisted of Dryad, Quill, Specter, and the three remaining Stepford Cuckoos. HMS Dryad became a naval training centre housing a number of simulators. In "The Battle of the Labyrinth", Grover begins a relationship with the dryad Juniper. In March 1945 she joined the establishment of HMS "Dryad", the navigation school at Portsmouth. The deck chairs were cane, made by Dryad of Leicester. "Dryad" docked in Plymouth during October. "Dryad" carried out hydrography, too. Data submission is facilitated by journals sending notices of new manuscripts to Dryad. Other examples are arXiv, bioRxiv, Dryad, Figshare or Zenodo. The parallel processing system is based on the Microsoft Dryad solution. The "Dryad" and the gun-laden transports she fetched seem long in coming. Each unit with a radio is given a set of matching DRYAD code sheets. Babbington, master and commander, joins the squadron in the Mediterranean as captain of the "Dryad".