The spores soon become free, but the spicule often still adheres to them; but they are not attached to the intermingled filaments.
Each spicule was normally surmounted by an obovate spore.
In all cases the spicule originates before the sporule which it carries, and also attains its full length when the sporule appears.
The pileus or cap bears on its under surface radiating plates or gills, consisting of the hymenium, over which are thickly scattered the basidia, each surmounted by four spicules, and on each spicule a spore.
E=three stages in the development of a gemmule-spicule of E.