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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The middle coat or layer of a spore when it is possible to distinguish three layers, as in the spores of Onoclea Struthiopteris.
  • noun A unicellular teleutospore which occurs in certain species of Puccinia, as P. obscura, P. Scirpi, etc., associated with the ordinary two-celled form.

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