peridium
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The fruit-bodies are of very various shapes, showing a differentiation into an outer peridium and an inner spore-bearing mass, the gleba.
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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.
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The peridium may be double, varies in texture, color, persistence, and so forth, as will be more fully set forth in the several specific descriptions.
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When fully matured, the peridia are filled with a dusty mass of spores, so that it is scarcely possible in this condition to gain any notion of the structure.
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Spores produced on sporophores, compacted into one or more globose or disciform bodies, contained within a distinct peridium.
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