peridium

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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

When the spores are ready for dissemination a small aperture appears in the top of the peridium, through which they push their way outwards like a little puff of smoke.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

They are usually somewhat globose in form, having a thick outer coat or peridium, though in some of the genera the outer coat is very thin or obsolete.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

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 plasmodium is pale pink, soon becomes buff when exposed in fruiting, finally pallid or somewhat livid, and is outwardly changed into the stout, tough 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)