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Definition of Peridia
1. peridium [n] - See also: peridium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peridia
Literary usage of Peridia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions of by Robert Kaye Greville (1828)
"His observation is very just, that although, in some of these plants, the general
mass may appear to have an indeterminate form, the individual peridia of ..."
2. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical by Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain) (1874)
"At the juncture of the leaf (see 4) the cells of the peridia are nearly round;
... I am aware that the structure of the peridia, as described by me, ..."
3. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1864)
"... peridia large, scattered, abundant, disposed without order on the spots; spores
orange.—Cooke, Ie n. 1443 ; Schweinitz, in Trans. Am.Philos. Sac. 1834. ..."
4. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1874)
"G represents the appearance of tho peridia as seen by the naked eye ; 7, their
general arrangement and their groupings on the leaves ; 8, three cells, ..."
5. Flora scotica, or, A description of Scottish plants, arranged both according by William Jackson Hooker (1821)
"(peridia) sub-quadrangular, stipes very short. Peru. p. 227. 2. ... P. Graminis,
crowded linear becoming black, peridia somewhat ..."
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