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 hyph� are thicker than the spores and branched, continuous with the slightly cellular base, and forming a columella inside the peridium.

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

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

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

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