The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise / Its Habitat and its Time of Growth

by Miron Elisha Hard

The peridium is firm, single, generally thick, usually bursting irregularly, and exposing the gleba, which is of uniform texture and consistency. There is no capillitium, but yellow flocci are found interspersed with the spores. The spores are globose, rough, usually mixed with the hyphæ tissue.

Scleroderma aurantium. Pers.

The Common Scleroderma. Edible.

Photo by C. G. Lloyd.

Plate LXIV. Figure 474.—Scleroderma aurantium.
Natural size, showing a section of a young specimen.

Figure 475.—Scleroderma aurantium.