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)

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)

In some instances the peridium is almost smooth, and sometimes cracks in areas, inner peridium thin and tough.

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

Sporangia; the first with the outer peridium broken away, � 10.

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)

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