sporocarp

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.

1 子实体

carpophore sporophore spore fruit fruiting body