Bot. [mod.L., dim. (after Gr. types) of σπορά SPORE.] a. A case or cell containing sporules. b. A sporule.

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1821.  W. J. Hooker, Flora Scotica, II. 16. Its sporules are included in a sort of capsule … which he [sc. Ditmar] calls sporidium.

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1830.  Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 334. Sporules lying either loose among the tissue, or enclosed in membranous cases called sporidia.

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1867.  J. Hogg, Microsc., II. i. 272. A gelatinous or membranous pericarp or conceptacle, in which an indefinite number of sporidia are contained.

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1887.  W. Phillips, Brit. Discomycetes, 444. A filiform sporidium removed from an ascus.

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  Comb.  1875.  Cooke, Fungi, 64. The second section is termed Sporidiifera, or sporidia-bearing.

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