GLOSSARY OF TERMS. 419 



Rotundate, round, orbicular. 



PiU/escent, reddish brown. 



RufousfRufw, full red-brown. 



Ruga, a wrinkle. 



Rugose, Rugulose, wrinkled on the surface. 



Scabrous, rough, covered with minute elevations. 



Scarce, rarely present, occurring here and there. 



Scattered, not crowded, being at some distance apart. 



Saccharine, resembling sugar, covered with shining grains like sugar. 



Sclerotium, an old genus of fungi comprising hard, black, compact 

 bodies which are now proved to be a resting condition of the 

 mycelium of certain fungi, as of Peziza tuberosa, etc. 



Scrdbiculate, marked with little pits. 



Scutellate, formed like a dish or saucer, orbicular and nearly flat. 



Septate, having divisions, partitioned on into separate compartments. 



Septum, the division wall of a cell. 



Seriate, arranged in a row. 



Serrated, toothed on the margin like the edge of a paw. 



Setaceous, furnished with bristles, in the form of a bristle. 



Setulose. See Setaceous. 



Sinuate, Sinuous, Sinuose, the margin uneven with alternate con- 

 cavities and convexities. 



Solitary, not closely associated with others. 



Spadicious, date-brown, duller and darker than bay-brown. 



Spathvlate, spoon-shaped, rounded at the summit and narrowed towards 

 the base. 



Spermogonia, receptacles in which spermatia are produced in fungi 

 and lichens. 



Spherical, Spheroid, shaped like a sphere. 



Spicula, a little spike. 



Sporidiiferous, bearing sporidia. 



Sporidium, an ascospore, or endospore ; differs from a spore in being 

 developed within another cell. 



Spurious, false, counterfeit, having only an appearance. 



Sqiiarnulose, covered with small scales. 



Stellate, star-shaped, radiating from a common centre. 



Sterigmata, a prop, a filament which supports a spore. 



Stipitnte, having a stem. 



Stuffed, filled with a cottony web or spongy mass distinct from the 

 walls. 



Striate, channelled, furrowed, marked with grooves. 



Strigose, rough with fascicles of hairs, hispid. 



>^troma, a more or less continuous layer, varying in consistence from 

 fleshy to carbonaceous, arising from the mycelium, on which the 

 receptacles are seated, as in the genera Ephelis and Dermatea. 



Stylogonidia, gonidia formed by abstriction on the ends of special 

 filaments. 



