< Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
PENICILLIUM, in botany, a genus of hyphomycetous fungi. It consists of a dense, pasty crust, slimy below and above, consisting of minute pedicels, terminating in a pencil of moniliform spores. One, P. glaucum, is green mold.
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