Glossary 



FARINACEOUS (farinaceus,<^ farina, meal), mealy. 



FAR'INOSE (fannosus, mealy), covered with a white mealy powder. 



FAS'CIA (fastis, a bundle), a band or bar. 



FAS'CIATE, FAS'CIATED (fascia, a band or girth), having broad parallel bands or 



stripes ; banded or compacted together ; exhibiting fasciation. 

 FASCIA / TION (fascia, a band), the act or manner of binding with fasciae, a monstrous 



flattened expansion of the stem ; condition of being bound or compacted together. 

 FAS'CICLE, FASCICULUS (fasciculus, a small bundle; packet, etc.), a close cluster; a 



small bundle. 



FASCICULATE (fasciculus, a small bundle), growing in small bundles or fascicles. 

 FASTIG'IATE (fastigiatus, sloping, <ifastigium, the top of a gable, slope), with 



branches erect and close together; sloping upward to a summit, point or edge. 

 FAVOSE' (favosiis, <^favus, a honey-comb), honey-combed; resembling a honey- 

 comb. 



FAWN-COLOR (cervinus, cervineus), a light warm-brown color. 

 FERRU'GINEOUS, FERRUGINOUS (ferrugineus), rust-red or the color of iron rust. 

 FI'BRILLAR, FI'BRILLATE, FI'BRILLOSE, FI'BRILLOUS (jlbrilla, a fiber), appearing to be 



covered or composed of minute fibers. 



FIBROUS (fibrosus, <^fibra, a fiber), clothed with small fibers. 

 FI'BROUS-MYCE'LIUM, FIBRILLOSE-MYCELIUM, elongated branching mycelial strands, 



formed by the union of hyphae. 

 FIG'URATE (figuratus, pp. figuare, <figura, a form, shape), of a certain determinate 



form or shape. 



FIL'AMENT (filum, thread), a separate fiber or fibril of any animal or vegetable tis- 

 sue, as a filament of silk, wool, etc. 



FILAJIEN'TOUS, like a thread ; composed of threads or filaments.. 

 FILAMEN'TOUS-MYCE'LIUM, FLOC'COSE-MYCE'LIUM, mycelium of free hyphae which 



are at most loosely interwoven, but without forming bodies of definite shape and 



outline. 



FIL'ACEOUS, FIL'IFORM (filum, a thread, + aceous), like a thread or filament. 

 FIM'BRIATE, FIM'BRIATED (fimbriatus, <^fimbri(e, a fringe), fringed; cut jaggedly. 

 FISSILE (fissilis, cleft, <^fissus, pp. findere, split), capable of being split, cleft or 



divided in layers. 



FIS'SURED (fissura, a cleft, chink, fissure), cleft or split. 

 FIS'TULAR, FIS'TULOSE (fistularis, like a pipe, ^fistula, a pipe), tubular, hollow in 



the center like a pipe. 



FIXED, said of lamellae or spines not readily detached from the underlying tissue. 

 FLABEL X LATE, FLABEL^IFORM (flabellum, a fan), fan-shaped. 

 FLAC'CID (flaccidus, flabby, pendulous), soft and limber; flabby; without firmness 



or elasticity. 

 FLAVES'CENT (flavescens, ppr.flavescere, become yellow, <^flavus, yellow), yellowish 



or turning yellow. 



FLA'VOUS (flavus, golden-yellow, reddish-yellow) , yellow. 

 FLESH, inner substance of a fungus-body as distinguished from the cortical and 



hymenial layers. 

 FLESH-COLOR (carneus, incarnatus'}, a pinkish-color like that observable in the 



cheeks of a person of fair complexion; carnation. 

 FLESH'Y, succulent; composed of juicy cellular tissue. 

 FLEX'UOSE, FLEX^OUS (flexuosus, <^flexus, n bending, winding), wavy. 



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