Bot. Anglicized form of next.
1856. W. L. Lindsay, Pop. Hist. Brit. Lichens, 72. The cavity of the spermogone is usually simple and rounded.
1862. Ansted, Channel Isl., II. viii. 189. His specimens were covered with spermatiferous spermogones.
1882. Encycl. Brit., XIV. 555/1. The spermogones, which are the presumed male organs of reproduction,… differ in appearance from the apothecia in being very minute corpuscles.
