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Definition of Genus sclerotium
1. Noun. Form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants.
Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Mycelia Sterilia, Order Mycelia Sterilia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sclerotium
Literary usage of Genus sclerotium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Intellectual Observer (1862)
"HYBERNATION OF FUNGI—THE genus sclerotium. BY THE EEV. MILES JOSEPH BERKELEY,
MA, FLS UP to a very recent date the science of ..."
2. Journal of Science and the Arts by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1817)
"From an Essay on the genus Sclerotium, by Mons. De Candolle, in the Memoires du
Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, ..."
3. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1817)
"... according to the old opinion, as a degeneracy in the grain, and not as a fungus
of the genus sclerotium, as is the opinion of M. de Candolle. ..."
4. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1842)
"... Je- te i mined that the ergot was a distinct parasitic plant, i'.ne- loping
itself from the ovary of graves, and referred it lu the genus Sclerotium. ..."
5. Library of Useful Knowledge (1838)
"Neither have we a right fo say that a cobwebby substance produces the genus Agaric
in the summer, and the genus Sclerotium in the winter. ..."
6. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1857)
"... genus Sclerotium is one which, for a long time, has occupied a doubtful position
in the family of the Fungi. After having been bandied about from one ..."
7. Medical Botany; Or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants ...by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1834)
"... like contagion in the disease, which may very possibly take place through the
agency of insects. In an Essay on the genus Sclerotium by De Candolle, ..."