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Pru'inose. Covered with a bloom or powder. 



Pulverulent. Covered with powder or dust. 



Putrescent. Decaying. 



Ead / icating. Taking root. 



Retic'ulated. Marked with cross lines like a net. 



Rev / olute. Eolled upward or backward. 



Ri'mose. Cracked. 



Rim'ulose. Covered with small cracks. 



Ring. Annulus. 



Riv / ulose. Marked with lines like rivers in maps. 



Rotund 7 . Round. 



Rugose. Wrinkled. 



Sap / id. Agreeable to the taste. 



Saprophyte. A plant that lives on decaying matter. 



Scabious. Rough. 



Scis'sile. Easily split. 



Separating. Spoken of gills when they easily separate from 

 the stem. 



Ses / sile. Stemless. 



Sin / uate. Wavy, A gill that has a sudden curve near the 

 Btem. 



Sordid. Dingy. 



Spore. The same body that answers to the seed of flowering 

 plants. 



Spo'rophore. That part which bears the spores or spore 

 mother cells. 



Squa / mose. Scaly. 



Stalk. A stipe or stem. 



Stel'late. Star-shaped. 



Stipe. See stalk. 



Strobil'iform. Shaped like a pine-cone. 



Stuffed. When a stem is filled with pith or a spongy sub- 

 stance. 



Suc / culent. Juicy, fleshy. 



Sul'eate. Grooved. 



Superior. Spoken of a ring that is high up on the stem. 



