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Another distinguishing feature Is the character of the hymenium, or fertile layer of the fungus fruit-body.— Article Source
As the mushroom grows the stem lengthens, the cap expands and bursts the veil that surrounds it, and gradually gains its perfect shape Every mushroom has a spore-bearing layer of cells, which is called the hymenium.— Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
This hymenium is composed of a number of swollen, club-shaped cells, called basidia, and close to them, side by side, are sterile, elongated cells, named paraphyses.— Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
Tra´ma. The substance proceeding from and of like nature with the part that bears the hymenium--the framework of the gills.— Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
The basidia together make up the _hymenium_.— Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.

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