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

The capillitium and fragment of the peridium of the same species, � 380.

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 netted capillitium and the evanescent peridium suggests Arcyria, but there are abundant free tips, and the threads are unmistakably spirally wound, especially in the large, handsome sporangia characteristic of the Mississippi valley.

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 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

A rare and beautiful species, distinguished well by the small size, about .5 mm., by the thin iridescent peridium, as by the microscopic characters of the capillitial threads.

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)