Glossary 



ARGILLACEOUS (argillaceus <^argilla, white clay), resembling or like clay. 



AR'ID (aridus, dry, <^arere, be dry), dry. 



ARIS'TATE (aristatus <^arista, awn or beard), having a pointed beard-like process as 



in barley. 

 ARMII/LA (armilla, a bracelet, armlet, hoop, ring, dim. prob. of armus, shoulder), a 



plaited frill hanging from the apex of the stem. 

 ARTE'RIOLE (arteriola, dim. of arteria, artery), a small artery. 

 ARTICULATE (articulatus, pp. of articulare, divide into joints or members, <iarticulus, 



a joint, etc.), jointed. 

 ASCEND'ING (ad, to, + scandere, to climb), inclining or growing upward; applied 



to a lamella where its edge forms a line ascending in the direction from the mar- 

 gin of pileus toward the apex of the stipe; as in conical shaped pilei; applied to 



the partial veil when in the young stage its stem-attachment is below the level of 



its marginal one; in this case a ring formed from it is called inferior. 

 As'ci (Gr. a leathern bag, bladder), spore cases of certain mushrooms, in which a 



definite number of spores are enclosed in a sac. 

 ASCIF'EROUS, ASCOPH'OROUS (ascus -\-ferre, bear), ascus-bearing. 

 ASCIG'EROUS (ascus -(- gerere, bear), bearing asci. 

 AS'COCARP (Gr. a bag, + a fruit), in Ascomycetes, sporocarp producing asci and 



ascospores. 



ASCOG'ENOUS (Gr. a bag, + producing), producing asci. 

 ASCOMYCETES (Gr. a bag, + Gr. a mushroom), group of fungi in which the spores 



are produced within little sack-like cells, called asci. 

 ASCOMYCE'TOUS, of or pertaining to the ascomycetes. 

 AS'COPHORE (Gr. bearing wine-skins; Gr.a bag), sporophore bearing an ascus or 



asci. 



ASCOPH'OROUS, bearing an ascus or asci. 

 AS'COSPORES (Gr. a bag, + Gr. seed), one of a number of spores formed within 



an ascus. 

 As'cus (pi. As'ci). (Gr. a leather bag, bottle, bladder, etc.), microscopic sack-like 



cells in which spores, generally eight in number, are developed. 

 ASEP / TATE (Gr. without, -f L. septum, a fence), without partitions or septa, said 



of hyphse and spores. 

 ASH COLOR (See CINEREOUS). 

 AS'PERATE, AS'PERATED (aspemtus, pp. of asperare, roughen, <^asper, rough), having 



a rough, uneven surface. 



AS'TICHOUS (astichus, <a -f- Gr. row), not arranged in rows. 

 ASTO'MATOUS (astomatus, mouthless), without a mouth or aperture; without stomata. 

 AS'TOMOUS (astomus, mouthless^), without a stoma or mouth. 

 AT'OMATE (Gr. an atom), sprinkled with atoms or minute particles. 

 A r TRO (ater, black), in composition "black," or "dark." 

 A^TROPURP^REOUS (ater, black, + purpura, purple dye, + ous), dark purple. 

 A^ROSANGUIN'EOUS (ater, black; sanguineus, blood, bloody), dark purple; dark 



blood color. 

 ATTENUATE (attenuates, pp. of attenuare, make thin, weaken, lessen, <ad, to, + 



tenuare, make thin), becoming gradually narrowed or smaller. 

 AURANTI X ACEOUS (aurantium, an orange), orange-colored. 

 AUR'EOUS (aureus, of gold, golden, <awrem, gold), golden-yellow; yellow with a 



slight tinge of red. 



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