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Without pores.

ctification. The different forms are known in mycology under distinct names. Called also spore fruit.

A large class of higher fungi distinguished by septate hyphæ, and by having their spores formed in asci, or spore sacs. It comprises many orders, among which are the yeasts, molds, mildews, truffles, morels, etc. -- As`co*my*ce"tous (#), a.

Without a material body; incorporeal. Todd.

Not furnished with shields or beds for the spores, as the thallus of certain lichens.

widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus.

large subdivision of fungi coördinate with the Ascomycetes, characterized by having the spores borne on a basidium. It embraces those fungi best known to the public, such as mushrooms, toadstools, etc.

A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.

That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.

Without material form; incorporeal. Phantoms bodiless and vain. Swift.

Corporeality. Minsheu.

Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter. You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us. Tatler.

Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.

her in form and position, covering each of the small flaskike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.

The sensitiveness exhibited by small free-swimming organisms, as bacteria, zoöspores of algæ, etc., to chemical substances held in solution. They may be attracted (positive chemotaxis) or repelled (negative chemotaxis). -- Chem`o*tac"tic (#), a. -- Chem`o*tac"tic*al*ly, adv.

ids. The golden globe being put into a press, . . . the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal. Locke.

w species is Lycopodium clavatum, but other Lycopodia are often called by this name. The spores form a highly inflammable powder. -- Club root (Bot.), a disease of cabbages, by which the roots become distorted and the heads spoiled. -- Club topsail (Naut.), a kind of gaff topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-…

o the genus Clupeaster; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.

One of the cases containing the spores, etc., of flowerless plants, especially of algae.

A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoöspores.