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Definition of Genus Pertusaria

1. Noun. Crustose lichens that are a source of the dye archil and of litmus.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Pertusaria

Literary usage of Genus Pertusaria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1870)
"IN preparing my ' Lichen-Flora of Great Britain ' I have had occasion to devote a good deal of attention to the genus Pertusaria, and have discovered that ..."

2. The Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science: The Journal of the Postal by Allen, Postal Microscopical Society (1884)
"... disc of the apothecium, which, in the genus Pertusaria, is thus rendered abortive by being converted into little heaps or clusters of powdery bodies, ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1904)
"Orcin—Occurrence in the Free State in Certain Genera.—Up to the present it has been considered that free orcin occurs only in the genus Pertusaria, ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1904)
"Orcin—Occurrence in the Free State in Certain Genera.—Up to the present it has been considered that free orcin occurs only in the genus Pertusaria, ..."

5. The Journal of the Postal Microscopical Society by Postal Microscopical Society (1882)
"The genus Pertusaria, common on trees about us, is in reality one of the most abundantly fertile of our British genera, and has spores of enormous ..."

6. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants [&c.] by James Sowerby, Charles Johnson, James Edward Smith (1843)
"... and are of a circular outline when perfect, but often deformed by mutual pressure. A very doubtful member of the genus. PERTUSARIA CRASSA. ..."

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