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FLOCCULOSE, covered with small flocci. 



FREE, of gills which reach the stem but are not attached to it. 

 FURFURACEOUS (furfur, bran), with branny scales or scurf. 

 FUSCOUS (fuscus, dusky), brownish in colour, but dingy, not pure. 



GIBBOUS (gibbus, hump-backed), in the form of a swelling ; of a pileus e.g. 



which is more convex or tumid on one side than the other. 

 GILLS, the plates of an Agaric on which the hymenium is situated. 

 GREAVED (greve, the shin-bone), of a stem clothed like a leg in armour. 

 GRUMOUS (grumus, a little heap), clotted ; of flesh e.g. composed of little 



clustered grains. 



GUTTATE (gutta, a tear), marked with tear-like spots. 

 GYROSE (yvpos, a circle), circling in wavy folds. 



HETEROGENEOUS (erepos, one of two ; yevvda>, to beget), of a structure which 



is different from adjacent ones. 



HOMOGENEOUS (o/j.6s, one and the same ; yevvdta, to beget), similar in struc- 

 ture. 



HYALINE (va\os, clear), transparent. 

 HYBERNACULUM (hiberno, to winter), applied to bodies which are the forms 



in which certain fungi, e.g. Typhulce, pass the winter. 

 HYGROPHANOUS (Hypos, moist ; <cuVw, to appear), of a watery appearance 



when moist and opaque when dry. 

 HYMENIUM (v^v, a membrane), the fruit-bearing surface ; e.g. on each side of 



the gills of an Agaric. 

 HYMENOPHORE (V/J.TIV, a membrane ; </>e'pw, to bear), the structure which 



bears the hymenium ; in Agarics e.g. the under surface of the pileus to which 



the gills are attached. 



IMMARGINATE (in, negative ; margo, a margin), without a distinct border. 

 IMMERSED (immergo, to immerse), sunk into the matrix. 

 INFERIOR, of the ring of an Agaric which is far down on the stem. 

 INFUNDIBULIFORM (infundibulum, a funnel ; forma, form), funnel-shaped. 

 INNATE (in, into ; nascor, to be born), adhering by growing into. 

 INSERTED (insero, to insert), growing like a graft from its stock. 

 INVOLUTE (in ; volvo, to roll), rolled inwards. 

 ISABELLINE, of the colour of soiled linen ; brownish-yellow-clay. 



LACINIATE (lacinia, a lappet, flap), divided into flaps. 

 LACUNOSE (lacuna, a pit), marked with small hollows. 

 LANCEOLATE (lancea, a spear), lance-shaped ; tapering to both ends. 

 LINEAR (linea, aline), narrow and straight. 



MAMMIFORM (mamma, a breast; forma, form), breast-shaped. 

 MARGINATE (margo, a margin), having a distinct border. 

 MATRIX (matrix, the womb), the substance on which a fungus grows. 

 MEDIAL (medium, the middle), at the middle ; of the ring of an Agaric e.g. 



which is between superior or near the apex of the stem, and distant or far 



removed from the apex. 

 MERISMOID (Merisma, from nepifa, to divide, a generic name applied by Per- 



soon to certain fungi with branched or laciniate pilei, now included under 



