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But who has ever seen the gonidia of lichens the worse for having the ‘hypha’ growing amongst them?

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

The lichen-thallus is composed of chains or groups of round chlorophyl-containing cells, called "gonidia," and masses of interwoven rows of elongated cells which constitute the hyphæ.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various

This he thinks is the only way in which it can be accounted for that the gonidia of diverse lichens should be almost identical.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

The achorion consists of slender, mycelial threads matted together, bearing oval, nucleated gonidia either free or jointed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

That the different forms and varieties of gonidia corresponded with parallel types of algæ; 4th.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)