414 GLOSSARY OF TERMS. 



Distinct, well marked, not to be confounded with another. 

 Down, fine soft pubescence on the surface of anything. 



Echinulate, beset with short spines. 



Effused, spread out over the matrix, spread into a thin layer. 



Eguttulate, without drops. 



Ejected, thrown out, thrust out with force. 



Ellipsoid. See Elliptic. 



Elliptic, having the form of an ellipse, an oval rounded at the ends. 



Elongated, lengthened out. 



Endoclirome, protoplasm of cells, cell-contents. 



Entire, not divided into parts, continuous. 



Epiphyllous, growing on a leaf. 



Epiphytal, living upon other plants. 



Epispore, the outer cell- wall of a spore. 



Equal, of the same dimensions, not lop-sided. 



Erose, gnawed, as if bitten irregularly. 



Erumpent, bursting through the surface of the matrix in which it was 



embedded. 



Evanescent, soon vanishing. 

 Excavated, hollowed out into a cavity. 

 Excipulum, external layer of a cup, or a perithecium, sometimes used 



as a synonym for Receptacle, which see. 

 Expanded, spread out, becoming less concave, as when a cup which is 



at first nearly closed, assumes a saucer-form. 

 Exserted, thrust out, protruding beyond the surface. 



Farinaceous, mealy, covered with particles resembling meal. 



Farinose. See Farinaceous. 



Fascicle, a little bundle. 



Fasciculate, where several similar parts originate at the same spot, and 



so form a bundle. 



Fastigiate, when all the parts are nearly parallel, each pointing upwards. 

 Fawn-colour, the colour of a young deer. 

 Fenestrate, divided into compartments like a window. 

 Ferruginous, the colour of rusty iron, reddish-brown. 

 Fibril, a fine fibre or filament, hair-like appendage. 

 Fibr-illose, furnished with fibrils, clothed with little loose fibres. 

 Filiform, thread-siiape, cylindrical and slender like a thread. 

 Finibriate, fringed. 

 Fistulose, hollow like a pipe. 

 Flattened, pressed down, as when a sphere is depressed, or a cylindrical 



body has its opposite sides brought closer together. 

 Fleshy, of the consistence of flesh. 



Flexuose, bending gently to and fro in opposite directions. 

 Flocci, fine threads like wool. 

 Floccose, furnished with a wool-like covering, resembling a flock of 



woul. 



