They succeeded in demonstrating that these vegetable parasitic growths were a form of aspergillus.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
"It spreads its mycelium in the tissue which is becoming brown," he writes, "and this shows at first essentially the same construction and growth as that of the mycelium filaments of aspergillus."
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
In aspergillus, the threads are simple and erect, with a globose head, around which are clustered chains of simple spores.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke