[mod. L. (Link), dim. f. subic-, stem of late L. subices (pl.) supports, f. subicĕre to throw or place under (see SUBJECT).]
1. Bot. In certain fungi, the modified tissue of the host bearing the perithecia.
1836. Berkeley, in Smith’s Engl. Flora, V. II. 370. Spots variegated with yellow and brown, subiculum rather thick.
1875. Cooke & Berkeley, Fungi, 15. We have Pezizæ with a subiculum in the section Tapesia.
1887. W. Phillips, Brit. Discomycetes, 226. Seated at first on a delicate white subiculum, which disappears as the plant advances to maturity.
2. Anat. The uncinate gyrus.
