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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of ascomycetous fungi having the ascocarps globose, corky, at first sunken in the host, finally erumpent and opening by a narrow longitudinalslit. The spores are filiform, hyaline, and many-celled. Only a few species are known. They occur on dead branches.
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