peridium
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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
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
Schrader redefined the genus; opposed Persoon's view as to the capillitial nature of the net, and separated the genus Dictydium, but by imperfect limitations,—in fact, chiefly because of the more completely evanescent 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)
The fruit-bodies are of very various shapes, showing a differentiation into an outer peridium and an inner spore-bearing mass, the gleba.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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)