| He does not regard them as genuine asci, but as corresponding more to the peridium of the Gasteromycete and myxomycete. |
| The cysts, then, belong morphologically to the peridium or sporangium wall. |
| The peridium is round or conical and it dehisces by breaking away at the base. |
| Globose shape, sometimes lobed, with brown to black peridium, with close warts, hollow on their tops and crossed by longitudinal grooves. |
| Usually globose in shape or a little lobed, with black peridium and pyramidal warts with apparent cross stripes. |
| Spores produced on sporophores, compacted into one or more globose or disciform bodies, contained within a distinct peridium. |
