... in turn gives rise to long club-shaped cells which stand parallel to each other at right angles to the surface of the gill. The entire surface of the gill is covered with these club-shaped cells called basidia (sing. basidium). Each of these club-shaped cells bears either two or four spinous processes called sterigmata (sing. sterigma), and these in turn each bear a spore. All these points are well shown in Fig. 8. The basidia together make up ... — Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. • George Francis Atkinson
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