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Lignin — substance impregnating wall 



of wood cells. 

 Lignose — woody. 

 Lurid — dingy brown. 



Marginate — with a margin. 

 Mucedineus — cottony. 

 Multiplex — many of tbe same. 

 Mycelium — vegetative portion of fun- 

 gus. 



Nodose — with joints. 

 Nodular — knobby. 



Obsolete — lacking. 



Ochraceous — yellow with a tinge of 



red. 

 Orbicular — round. 

 Osseous — like bone. 



Pallescent — turning pale. 



Pallid— pale. J 



Papillae — nipple shaped projections. 



Papyraceous— papery. 



Pellucid — clear. 



Peronate — rough. 



Pileoli — small pilei. 



Pileus — cap. 



Pilose — hairy. 



Plicate — folded. 



Polycephalous — with many heads. 



Polyporoid — like a polypore. 



Porose — with pores. 



Porus — a pore. 



Pruinate — somewhat powdery. 



Pruinose — powdery. 



Pubescence — hairs. 



Pulverulent — minutely powdered. 



Pulvinate — cushioned. 



Punctate — dotted. 



Punctiform — dot-like. 



Putrescent — decaying. 



Pyriform — pear form. 



Radicate — somewhat rooted. 



Reniform — kidney-shaped. 



Resupinate — spread over the substra- 

 tum. 



Rhizomorph — root-like branch of my- 

 celia. 



Rimose — cracked. 



Rivulose — channeled. 



Rufescent — becoming reddish. 



Rugose — wrinkled. 



Rugulose — minutely wrinkled. 



Scabrous — rough to the touch. 



Scrupose — rough, jagged. 



Scurfy — with small scales. 



scutate — shield-shape. 



Scutellate — like a small shield. 



Seriate — in a series. 



Sericeous — silky. 



Sessile — stemless. 



Setulose — with bristles. 



Sinuous — deeply waved. 



Sordid — dirty. 



Spadiceous — brownish. 



Spatulate — oblong, lower end smaller. 



Spinules — little spines. 



Sporophore — spore bearing portion. 



Squamose — scaly. 



Squamulose — with minute scales. 



Squarrose — with prominent reflexed 



scales. 

 Stipe — stalk. 

 Stipitate— stalked. 

 Stratose — in layers. 

 Strigose — covered with stiff hairs. 



Sub. more or less. 



Suberose — corky. 



Subiculum — a cottony mycelium. 



Sulcate — furrowed. 



Tomentum — dense hair or wool. 

 Tracheid — vasiform wood cell. 

 Trania — hyphae at base of hymenium. 

 Tametoid — like Trametes. 

 Tremelline — jelly-like. 

 Triquetrous — -with three angles. 

 Tuberculose — roughened. 

 Tumid — swollen. 



Umbilicate — depressed in the center. 

 Umbonate — bearing a protuberance. 

 Umbrinous — brownish. 

 Undulate — wavy. 

 Ungulate — clawed. 



Unguliform — like a claw. 

 Velutinous — velvety. 

 Vesicular — composed of vessels. 

 Villose — somewhat woolly. 

 Villous — with long soft hairs. 

 Virgate — wand shaped. 

 Viscid — glutinous, sticky. 

 Viscous — clammy. 

 Vitelline — yellowish. 

 Volva — an envelope which completely 

 surrounds young plants. 



A Zonate — with concentric bands. 



Saprophyte — growing on dead organic 

 matter. 



