Bot. [mod.L. dim. of THALAMUS.] (See quot. 1866.)
1861. Bentley, Man. Bot. (1870), 375. The body of the apothecium constitutes the thalamium.
1866. Treas. Bot., Thalamium, a hollow case containing spores in algals; also the disk or lamina prolifera of lichens, and a form of the hymenium in fungals.
