peridium
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It resembles Tubifera in its simple sporangia, opening without the aid of a net; it is like Cribraria in the smooth ochraceous-olivaceous spores and granuliferous peridium.
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)
Inner peridium distinct from the outer all round; capillitium nearly free, collapsing when mature, threads long and brittle; spores dingy olive, turning brown; base stem-like, broad and blunt, with root, obconical, somewhat spongy.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
The peridium is very fragile above, cracking into are� in the mature plant and breaking up and falling away in fragments, thus allowing the dispersion of the spores.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
As the warts fall off they leave the surface of the denuded peridium somewhat dotted or slightly reticulated.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
The peridium blends with the hypothallus below when such structure is recognizable, either directly, when the sporangium is sessile, or by the intervention of a stipe.
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)
