1.The fructification consists of a globular sporocarp of considerable size, which is spirally enwrapped by tubular cells twisted around it: by the side of this is a smaller and globular antheridium.

2.When first formed the hyph� are continuous and ramify through the nourishing substratum from which there arises afterward a spore-bearing growth known as the sporocarp or young mushroom.

3.Occasionally in the same plant that bears tetraspores, but more commonly in special ones, there are produced the sexual organs, and subsequently the sporocarps, or fruits, developed from them.

4.Base of a leaf and contained sporocarp filled with microspores cut across, magnified.

5.On the under side of the branches are found egg-shaped thin-walled sporocarps of two kinds.

6.The sporocarps are usually raised on a short stalk.

7.One of these threads reaches and fertilizes a cell at the apex of the nucleus or solid body of the sporocarp.

8.Portion magnified, showing the two kinds of sporocarp; the small ones contain microspores.

9.A fruiting portion, magnified, showing the structure; a sporocarp, and an antheridium.

10.The small ones open across and discharge microspores; the larger burst irregularly, and bring to view globose spore-cases, attached to the bottom of the sporocarp by a slender stalk.