Glossary 



GE'NUS (pi. GEN'ERA) (L. race, birth, origin, kind), a group of species having one 



or more characteristics in common ; the union of several genera presenting the 



same features constitute a tribe. 

 GIB'BOUS (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 ; the lamellae. 

 GIL'VOUS, isabelline ; color of sole-leather. 



GLA'BROUS (glaber, smooth), smooth, devoid of pubescence; a surface may be gla- 

 brous or smooth, and not even, or vice versa. 



GLAIR (clarus, clear), any viscous transparent substance resembling white of an egg. 

 GLANDS, GLAN'DULES (glans, an acorn, dim. glandula, a gland), moist or sticky dots 



resembling the glands on the epidermis of phenogams. 

 GLAN'DULAR, bearing glands. 



GLAUCES'CENT (glaucescen(t-)s, <glaucus, silvery, gleaming), inclining to glaucous. 

 GLATJ'COUS (glaucus, silvery, gleaming), covered with a whitish-green bloom or very 



fine white powder easily rubbed off. Somewhat like that of cabbage. 

 GLE'BA (gleba, a clod), in Gastrornycetes, spore-bearing tissue composed of 



chambers lined with the hymenium and enclosed by the sack-like peridium, as 



in puff-balls, etc. ; in phalloids the peridium or volva ruptures and the gleba is 



carried up on the stem-like or clathrate receptacle. 



GLO'BOSE, GLOBULAR, GLOB'ULOSE (globosus, round as a ball), nearly spherical. 

 GLU'TINOSE, GLUTINOUS (glutinosus, gluey, viscous, <gluten, glue), covered with a 



sticky exudation ; viscous ; glue-like. 

 GONID'IUM (Gr. generation; seed), same as conidium; also preferably applied to 



the algal element of lichens. 

 GRAN'ULAR, GRANULATE, GRAN'ULOSE (granula, dim. of granum, grain), covered with 



or composed of granules. 

 GRANULE (granula, dim. of granum, grain), a little grain; a fine particle; a sporule 



found in all cryptogamic plants. 

 GRAY (griseus; ccesius; cinereus; canus; leucophceus') , a color produced by the mixture 



of black and white. Various shades depending upon varying relative proportions 



of the components. 



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

 GREGA'RIOUS (gregarius, of a flock), of mushrooms not solitary but growing together 



in numbers in the same locality ; in groups but not in a tufted manner. 

 GRU'MOUS (grumosiis, <^grumus, a little heap), clotted; of flesh e. g. composed of 



little clustered grains. 



GUT'TATE (guttatus, <gutta, a tear), marked with tear-like spots or drops. 

 GUTT'ULA (pi. GUTTUL^O (dim. of gutta, a drop), a small drop or drop-like particle; 



the oil-globule in some spores resembling a nucleus. 

 GUTT'ULATE, finely guttate; also, containing or composed of fine drops or drop-like 



particles ; said of spores containing an oily nucleus-like globule or guttula. 

 GYMNOCAR'POUS (Gr. naked, + Gr. fruit), having the hymenium exposed when 



the spores are maturing. 

 GY'RATE, GY'ROSE (Gr. a circle), circling in wavy folds; having folds resembling 



the convolutions of the brain. 



HAB'ITAT (habitat, it dwells), natural abode of a vegetable species. 



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