featuring concentric zones. chemical reactions : tissues from dried specimens brownish when crushed in koh. microscopic features : asci -spored; deliquescing along with the paraphyses so that spores are exuded from the perithecia in a gelatinous black matrix (according to nannfeldt [ ], "[t]he ascus...
progressively smaller and smaller as it travels downward until it is small enough to escape to the bottom opening. the movement can be quite small, as the complete crushing is not performed in one stroke. the inertia required to crush the material is provided by the weighted flywheel that moves the...