utricle

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For a long time the mysterious little chambers of life were called by various names, such as "vesicles," "utricles" and "globules."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is principally the spores with thin membranes that emit from near the middle very obtuse tubes, into which by degrees, as they elongate, the contents of the parent utricles pass.

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

If the latter be sown in a suitable medium, for example, in a solution of sugar, they swell, and shoot forth germinating utricles, which quickly grow to mycelia, which bear sporangia.

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

Its mycelium represents at first strong branched utricles without partitions; the branches are of the higher order, mostly divided into rich and very fine-pointed ramuli.

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

After 5 hrs. many of the glands presented a shade of brown, with their utricles slightly shrunk.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles