Bot. [a. L. capillitium the hair collectively, f. capillus.] ‘Entangled filamentary matter in fungals, bearing sporidia.’ (Treas. Bot., 1866.)
1871. Cooke, Fungi (1874), 34. The spinulose projections from the capillitium … are the remains of pedicels.
1875. Bennett & Dyer, trans. Sachs’ Bot., 255. The mass of slender filaments remains as a delicate Capillitium.
