. Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes ; a descriptive catalogue of the drawings and specimens in the Department of botany, British museum. , e, section through part of gleba, showing cavities and enclosed peridiola. X 5. f, basidiaand spores. X 250. G, spore. X 750. rupture of the apex. Gleba consisting of numerous cells, each con-taining a peridiolum. Peridiola at first saccate or irregularly ovoid,sometimes filling the cell and becoming irregularly polygonal.(Fig. 133.) 2085. P. pisocarpium Fr. (from the pea-like peridiola; pisum, a pea,carpellum, a fruit) a irregularly globose or o


. Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes ; a descriptive catalogue of the drawings and specimens in the Department of botany, British museum. , e, section through part of gleba, showing cavities and enclosed peridiola. X 5. f, basidiaand spores. X 250. G, spore. X 750. rupture of the apex. Gleba consisting of numerous cells, each con-taining a peridiolum. Peridiola at first saccate or irregularly ovoid,sometimes filling the cell and becoming irregularly polygonal.(Fig. 133.) 2085. P. pisocarpium Fr. (from the pea-like peridiola; pisum, a pea,carpellum, a fruit) a irregularly globose or ovate, smooth, subtuberculose, corky,attenuate downwards into a more or less stem-like base, or Scleroderma SCLERODERMACE/E 479 sessile or nearly so, pale to olive-umber, base spongy-cellularwithin. Gl. composed of numerous cells, each containing anolive-umber Peri. Spores dark the ground. May. 2§ x 3§ in. CXVIII. SCLERODERMA Pers.(From the hard skin or peridium; Gr. skleros, hard, derma, skin.) Peridium firm, cortex persistent in the form of warts, scales orgranules, indehiscent or breaking up in an irregular or more or less. Fig. 134.—a, B, Scleroderma vulgare Hornem., entire and in section.^ One-half natural size,c, cells of gleba. X 5. d, basidia and spores; e, spore germinating. X 750. stellate manner, convex internally at base. Gleba cellular, subper-sistent, without peridiola. Trama in the cell walls. (Fig. 134.) The peridium is frequently and extensively perforated by larvaewhich eat the spore-mass and help to disseminate the spores. Species 2086—2089 2086. S. vulgare Hornem. (from its commonness ; vulgaris, common) a b c. Subsessile, often lobed below and usually slightly depressed above, ovate, reniform in vertical section. Pe. thick, corky, verrucose or adpressed-scaly, pale warm-brown, scales darker. Gl. dark slate-colour. Trama white. Often ccespitose. Under the name of vegetable tripe it has been eaten whenquite young and found not poisonous. Used fo


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