This latter commences when the sclerotium is brought into contact with damp ground during the usual temperature of our warmer seasons.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
The colourless tissue of the sclerotium disappears in the same degree as the conidia-bearers grow, and at last the black rind remains behind empty and shrivelled.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
If we bring, after many months, for the first time, the ripe sclerotium, in damp ground, in summer or autumn, after it has ripened, the further development takes place more slowly, and in an essentially different form.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke