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 or rind is membranaceous, smooth, or very slightly floccose, and creamy white at first, turning to pale yellowish-brown when the plant is old.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
Capillitium sub-compact, equal, adnate to the peridium on all sides; spores pedicillate, brownish.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
He does not regard them as genuine asci, but as corresponding more to the peridium of the Gasteromycete� and Myxomycete�.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
Hypothallus none; peridium checkered with pale reticulations. i.
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)
