Botrytis

(bot're-tis.) (Bot.) Agen. of fungi, or moulds, chiefly remarkable as containing the parasitic species of fungus (B. infer tans-sometimes referred to the gen. Per onos por a) which plays so important a part in the development of the potato disease Bot'ta, CARLO GIUSEPPE, an Italian historian, B. 1766, wrote a History of Italy which gave him a great reputation, and has taken its place as a standard work. D.1837. [s. 108]