peridium
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The peridium is exceedingly delicate, less seldom seen here than in some other species, but likely to be overlooked entirely.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
Capillitium sub-compact, equal, adnate to the peridium on all sides; spores pedicillate, brownish.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
Plant small, spherical, having a double shell or peridium, the inner one white and the outer one smooth and greyish lead-color or bluish-grey, and shelling off at maturity.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
The capillitium and fragment of the peridium of the same species, � 380.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
The persistent warts which cover the surface of the peridium are so minute as to appear to the naked eye like scales.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
