The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Perithecium

(from peri, around, and thekion, a receptacle; inasmuch as it surrounds the receptacle for the spores). The name given to certain bodies formed, in the processes of reproduction, in a large group of Fungi, the

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