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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small section of Fungi, characterized by the total absence of a hymenium, and by the vesicular fruit inclosing an indefinite number or mass of sporidia. Also called
Vesiculiferi .
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Or was it one of the gasteromycetes, the coniomycetes, the hyphomycetes, the ascomycetes, or one of the physomycetes?
Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 Various
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