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 Flocculose, covered with small flocci. 



Free, of gills which reach the stem but are not attached to it. 



Furfuraceous {furfur, bran), with branny scales or scurf. 



FUSCOUS {fuscus, dusky), brownish in colour, but dingy, not pure. 



Gibbous (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. 

 Greaved {greve, the shin-bone), of a stem clothed like a leg in armour. 

 Grumous {gramus, a little heap), clotted ; of flesh e.g. composed of little 



clustered grains. 

 Guttate (gutta, a tear), marked with tear-like spots. 

 Gyrose (yvpos, a circle), circling in wavy folds. 



Heterogeneous (eVepov, one of two; yewda>, to beget), of a structure which 



is different from adjacent ones. 

 Homogeneous {dfws, one and the same ; y^vvdw, to beget), similar in struc- 

 ture. 

 Hyaline (vdAos, clear), transparent. 

 Hybernaculum {hiberno, to winter), applied to bodies which are the forms 



in which certain fungi, e.g. Typhulce, pass the winter. 

 Hygrophanous {vypos, moist ; (paivca, to appear), of a watery appearance 



when moist and opaque when dry. 

 Hymenium (v/xtjv, a membrane), the fruit-bearing surface ; e.g. on each side of 



the gills of an Agaric. 

 Hymenophore (v/Ji.rjv, a membrane ; (pepon, to bear), the structure which 



bears the hymenium ; in Agarics e.g. the under surface of the pileus to which 



the gills are attached. 



Immarginate {in, negative ; margo, a margin), without a distinct border. 

 Immersed {immergo, to immerse), sunk into the matrix. 

 Inferior, of the ring of an Agaric which is far down on the stem. 

 Infundibuliform {infundibuium, a funnel ; forma, form), funnel-shaped. 

 Innate {in, into ; nascor, to be born), adhering by growing into. 

 Inserted {insero, to insert), growing like a graft from its stock. 

 Involute {in ; volvo, to roll), rolled inwards. 

 Isabelline, of the colour of soiled linen ; brownish-yellow-clay. 



Laciniate {lacinict, a lappet, flap), divided into flaps. 

 LACUNOSE {lacuna, a pit), marked with small hollows. 

 Lanceolate {lancea, a spear), lance-shaped ; tapering to both ends. 

 Linear {linea, a line), narrow and straight. 



Mammiform {mamma, a breast; forma, form), breast-shaped. 

 Marginate {margo, a margin), having a distinct border. 

 Matrix {matrix, the womb), the substance on which a fungus grows. 

 Medial {medium, the middle), at the middle; of the ring of an Agaric e.g. 



which is between superior or near the apex of the stem, and distant or far 



removed from the apex. 

 Merismoid (Merisma, from /xepifa, to divide, a generic name applied by Per- 



soon to certain fungi with branched or laciniate pilei, now included under 



