112 GLOSSARY. 



Filiform: thread shaped, or thread-like. 

 Flexuose: bending in opposite directions. 



Fusiform: spindle shaped, large in the middle and tapering to both 

 ends. 



Geminate: twin, in pairs. 



Geniculate: bent like a knee. 



Gonidia: propagative bodies, not produced by any act of fertilization. 



Granulate: with small or fine granules. 



Hirsute: hairy, 



Hyaline: transparent as glass. 



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 Impacted: matted, the whorls indistinct. 



Lamellate, lamellose: formed of superposed layers or plates. 

 Lunate: crescent-shaped. 



Mikron (yu): the -g^fa? of an inch. 



Monoecious: having the male and female organs separate but on the 



same plant. 



Moniliform: like a string of beads, or necklace-like. 

 Mucronate: tipped with a short, stiff point. 



Nucleus, plural Nuclei: in this case, one or more collections of chloro- 

 phyll in the cell. 



Obwate: egg-shaped, but with the broader end upward. 

 Oogonium, plural Oogonia: the sac bearing the oospores. 

 Oospore: spores formed in the ovarian sac or oogonium. 

 Orbicular: circular, or nearly so, in outline. 



Pellucid: transparent. 



Piliferous: bearing short hairs. 



Plicate: folded. 



Polymorphic: having several or many forms. 



Pubescent: bearing fine, soft hairs. 



Punctate: dotted with minute elevations or depressions. 



Pyriform: pear-shaped. 



Ramulus, plural Ramuli: a small or secondary branch. 

 Reniform: kidney-shaped. 



