sporules

They are propagated by minute granular bodies called sporules, which are really nothing else than distinct plants, disjoined from the parents, and increasing by the simple addition of cellular tissue.

Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator. 1823-1886 1855

After this fact one need not be surprised at the diffusion of the far lighter and smaller sporules of cryptogamic plants.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

After this fact one need not be surprised at the diffusion of the far lighter and smaller sporules of cryptogamic plants.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Under its leaves, which resembled those of the trefoil, there were dried sporules as large as a lentil, and these sporules, when crushed between two stones, made a sort of flour.

In Search of the Castaways 2003

"If the above liquids be left only in contact with air which has been passed through a red-hot platinum tube, and thus the living sporules destroyed; or if the air be simply filtered by passing through cotton wool, and the sporules prevented from coming into the liquid, it is found that these fermentable liquids may be preserved for any length of time without undergoing the slightest change."

Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele

Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere, insignificant as the sporules of fungi, and impinge on some neglected _thallus_, or surface of our minds, which affords a basis for them, and hence a parasitic growth.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

Reproduction resulting from conjugation, followed by the development of a true spore, in some genera dividing into four sporules before germinating.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 Various

It was so with these inexpressibly minute sporules; they were not there a short time since, but they grew large enough for our optical aids to reveal them, and there they were.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various

After this fact one need not be surprised at the diffusion of the far lighter and smaller sporules of cryptogamic plants.

Chapter I 1909

Under its leaves, which resembled those of the trefoil, there were dried sporules as large as a lentil, and these sporules, when crushed between two stones, made a sort of flour.

In Search of the Castaways 1873