peridium
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On the ripening of the spores this peridium ruptures, allowing their escape, the capillitium lending valuable aid in their dissemination.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
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
The capillitium never expands as in Arcyria, but, exposed by the vanishing upper wall, remains a spherical mass resting upon the shallow cup-like base of the 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 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
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
