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The fruit-bodies are of very various shapes, showing a differentiation into an outer peridium and an inner spore-bearing mass, the gleba.

When old the gleba consists of a dusty mass of threads and spores.

Peridium irregularly globose, thick, attenuated downward into a stem-like base, opening by disintegration of its upper portion; internal mass or gleba divided into distinct sac-like cells.

During this elongation of the receptacle a large part of the substance of the gleba dissolves into a thick liquid containing the spores.

We have not examined any specimens of Camillea globosa, but suspect a section would show two divisions of the gleba, as in the next.