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It is a soil which consequently abounds with putrid and putrefiable matter. 

From About London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

The presence of putrefiable or putrescent matter determines at once the germination of the always-present spore.

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