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 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)
The stipe is generally very short, about one-tenth the total height; sometimes, when the peridium is more globose, the stipe is proportionally longer.
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)
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
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)