spermogonium

Updated: May 23, 2025

If we examine older Æcidia, it will be found that this membrane bursts also at length, and the spores escape. Similar sections across a Spermogonium exhibit a structure which differs slightly from the above.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888

Between these larger orange yellow vesicles the lens shows certain smaller brownish or almost black specks. Each of the vesicular swellings is a form of fungus fructification known as an Æcidium, and each of the smaller specks is a fungus structure called a Spermogonium, and both of these bodies are developed from a mycelium in the tissues of the leaf.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888