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These sporocarps or fruit usually have two teeth near the base, and are 2-celled vertically, with many transverse partitions, and split or burst into 2 valves at maturity.

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

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.

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.

The sporocarps have a ring along the edges of the valves, which at length swells up and bears the sausage-shaped compartments from their places.