peridium
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peridea
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Origin of peridium
1815–25; < New Latin < German pērídion, diminutive of pḗra wallet; see -idium
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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 Thomas Taylor
The outer peridium is reflexed exactly as in some species of that genus; is yellow without, white within, and withal long persistent.
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 Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
When the spores are ready for dissemination a small aperture appears in the top of the peridium, through which they push their way outwards like a little puff of smoke.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
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 Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
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 Thomas Taylor
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