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BOTRYTIS

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 306 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOTRYTIS , a See also:

minute fungus which appears as a brownish-See also:grey See also:mould on decaying vegetation or on damaged fruits. Under a See also:hand-See also:lens it is seen to consist of tiny, upright, See also:brown stalks which are branched at the tips, each branchlet being crowned with a naked See also:head of See also:pale-coloured spores. It is a very See also:common fungus, growing everywhere in the open or in greenhouses, and can be found at almost any See also:season. It has also a See also:bad See also:record as a plant disease. If it once gains entrance into one of the higher See also:plants, it spreads rapidly, killing the tissues and reducing them to a rotten See also:condition. Seedling pines, lilies and many other cultivated plants are subject to attack by Botrytis. Some of the See also:species exist in two other growth-forms, so different in See also:appearance from the Botrytis that they have been regarded as distinct plants:—a sclerotium, which is a hard compact See also:mass of fungal filaments, or mycelium, that can retain its vitality for a considerable See also:time in a resting condition; and a stalked Peziza, I in 1856. In 1861 and 1862 he conducted at See also:Palermo, supervising or See also:cup-fungus, which grows out of the sclerotium. The latter the See also:production of his See also:opera See also:Marion See also:Delorme in 1862, and in 1863 is the perfect See also:form of See also:fruit.

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