"Basidium" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... surface of the plant, but in some it is confined to one side of the plant. The basidia are peculiar to the order, are deeply seated in the substance of the plant, rounded or globose, and divided into four cells in a cruciate manner. From each one of these cells of the basidium a long, slender process (sterigma) grows out to the surface of the plant and bears the spore. A few species only ...
— Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. • George Francis Atkinson |
