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S C L E R O T IUM S emen.
Seed-like Sclerotium.
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S P E C IF IC CHARACTER.
Sclerotium Semen; liberum, sphoericum, alhido-lutescens, demum spadiccum,
ntgresceits, et corrugatum, intus album. .
S. free, spherical, yellowish-white, at length reddish, eventually black and
rugose, white within.
S c l e r o t iu m Semen, Tode, Fung. Meckl. 1. p. 4. 1 .1. f. 6.— Pers. Syn. p. 123
- f b e r t et Schwein. p. 7 5 .-D e Cand. Fl. Franç. v. 6. p. U3.~FJusd,
m MusMHtsl. Nat. 1816, p. m — Rebent. Fl. Neomarch, p. S6l.-S chw e in .
Syn. Fung. Carol. No. S l i .— Nees' Syst, t. 14. f. 138.
A Brassicæ; subimmersum intus pallidum.
/3, Cabbage-leaf variety; subimmersed, pale within.
Fries, Sclerom. Fxsicc. No. 68.
S p h æ r ia Brassicæ, Bolt. Fung. l i p . f. 2.~So?v. Fung. t. 393. f. 3— Dicks.
P I Crypt, fasc. 1. p. 23.— With. Bot. Arr. ed. 6. v. 4. p. 4>1i.— Fxcl. sun.
Hoffmanni,
H ab. On the p u trid stalks of vegetables, especiaUy on heaps of common Potato
sta lks; not unfrequent. D r H ooker. Captain W auch. ¡2, On
the stalks and leaves of decaying Cabbages. Winter and spring.
Gregarious, globular, free, and attached by so fine a central point beneath
as to be moveable: very pale when young, at length reddish-brown,
black and corrugated, very firm and tenacious, white within. The common
size is that of mustard seed. /3 Scarcely differs except in being
not quite so regularly globular, and more variable in size, being some-
üraes as large as a pea, according to D ickson.
Extremely like the seeds of a plant,—so much so, indeed,
as to have passed among the ignorant for cabbage seeds. Variety
ß has a near resemblance to some states of Sclerotium
varium.
Fig. 2. a, Sc. Semen, nat. size, h. Plants magnified, c, One o f them divided.