GLOSSARY OF TERMS. 415 



Flocculate, minutely woolly. See Floccose. 



Forked, separating into two distinct branches which are more or less 



apart. 



Fragile, easily broken, frail. 



Friable, easily crumbled, easily reduced to powder. 

 Fugaceous, flying or fleeting away, soon falling away. 

 Fuliginous, sooty-brown, brown verging on black. 

 Fulvous, tawny, the colour of a lion. 

 Furfuraceous, coated with bran-like particles. 

 Fuscescent, tending to become fuscous or thrown. 

 Fuscous, or Fuscus, brown with a grey tinge. 

 Fusiform, spindle-shape. 

 Fuso-filiform, between fusiform and thread-shaped, very slenderly 



fusiform. 

 Fusoid, spindle-shaped. 



Gelatine, the jelly-like fluid secreted by many fungi. 



Gelatinous, having the consistence of jelly. 



Glabrous, a surface wholly destitute of pubescence. 



Glaucous, sea-green, dull green with a whitish-blue lustre. 



Globose, nearly spherical. 



Globulose, same as globose. 



Granulate, Granulose, covered with small grain-like tubercles, made 

 up of, or filled with, minute grains. 



Gregarious, growing in company like a flock of sheep, not solitary. 



Grumous, clotted, in clustered grains. 



Guttate, Cumulate, furnished with one or more spherical drops ; 

 synonym for nucleate. As nucleus has now a special meaning, 

 it has been considered better in this work to adopt the wordgutta, 

 guttse, and gultulate, instead of nucleus, nuclei, and nucleate in 

 describing sporidia. 



Gt/rose, folded and waved, or marked with wavy lines. 



Hemispherical, resembling half a sphere or globe. 



Hirsute, hairy. 



Hispid, furnished with rigid hairs. 



Horny, of the consistence of horn. 



Hyaline, more or less transparent like glass. 



Hymenium, the layer composed of the asci and paraphyses, the disc. 



Hypha, pi. Ht/phce, the mycelial thread or threads from which the 



fungus arises. 

 Hypocrateriform, formed like a goblet, the shape of a cylindrical cup 



the margin of which turns outward. 

 Hypopliyllous, seated on the under side of a leaf. 

 ffypothecium, the cellular tissue immediately beneath the hymenium, 



often called the subhy menial tissue. 

 Hystericfform, resembling an Hysterium, in the form of a long narrow 



ridge opening by a longitudinal slit at the top. 



