The natives use an infusion of the filamentous, reticulate portion surrounding the seeds, in doses of 0.50-0.60 gm.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
It is, in fact, a mere particle of living jelly, without defined parts of any kind-without a mouth, nerves, muscles, or distinct organs, and only manifesting its vitality to ordinary observation by thrusting out and retracting from all parts of its surface, long filamentous processes, which serve for arms and legs.
"Autobiography and Selected Essays"
Thomas Henry Huxley
Towards the surface, the ultimate branches of this filamentous network give birth, both at their summits and laterally, to globular cells, which acquire a comparatively large size.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke