GLOSSARY 499 



Emarginate (e, out of, margo, the margin), of gills with a sudden curve as if 

 scooped out at the point of attachment to the stem. 



Endoperidium (Gr. endon, within), the inner layer of the peridium. 



Endophyte, Entophyte (Gr. entos, within, pJmton, a plant), growing within 

 another plant. 



Epiphyte (Gr. epi, upon, ph?iton, a plant), growing upon another plant. 



Erumpent {erumpens, breaking through), bursting through the epidermis. 



Evanescent {evanescens, disappearing), lasting only a short time. 



Excipulus {excipula, a basin), the rim round the base of the apothecium. 



Exoperidium (Gr. exo, without), the outer layer of the peridium. 



Farinose {farina, meal), mealy. 



Fasciate {fascia, a band or girth), zoned as with coloured bands. 

 Fasciculate {fascis, a bundle), growing in small bundles. 



Fastigiate {fastigium, a slope or gable), with branches parallel, clustered and 

 erect, sometimes decreasing in height outwards and giving a gable shape. 



Ferruginous {fcrrum, iron), of the colour of iron-rust. 



Fibrillose {fibra, a fibre), clothed with small fibres. 



Filiform {filum, a thread), thread-like. 



Fimbriate {fimbria, a fringe), fringed. 



Fissile {fissilis, tending to split), capable of being split. 



Fistulose {fistula, a pipe), hollow like a pipe. 



Flocci {flocais, a lock of wool), woolly locks. 



Floccose, woolly. 



Flocculent, diminutive of floccose. 



Flocculose, covered with small flocci. 



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



Fuliginous {fuligineus, sooty), soot-coloured. 



Funiculus {finis, a rope), a cord of hyphae in JVidu/aria which attaches the 



peridiolum to the inner surface of the wall of the peridium. 

 Furcate {furcatus, forked), as in the branching gills common in Russula. 

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

 Fuscous {fuscus, dusky), of a dingy brownish colour. 



Fusiform {fusus, a spindle), somewhat thick but tapering towards each end. 

 Fusoid, somewhat spindle-shaped. 



Gibbous {gibbus, hump-backed), of a pileus with a swelling or broad umbo, or 



convex above and flat beneath. 

 Gills, the plates of an agaric on which the hymenium is situated. 

 Glabrous {glaber, without hair), not bearing hairs. 

 Glaucous (Gr. glaukos, bluish-grey), covered with a bluish-grey bloom. 

 Gleba {gleba, a clod), the contents of the peridium in the Gasteroynycetes. 

 Greaved, of a stem clothed as if with a greave. 

 Gregarious {gregarius, belonging to a flock), growing in company, but not 



csespitose. 

 Grumous {grumus, a little heap), clotted ; of flesh composed of little clustered 



grams. 



Guttate {gutta, a tear), with tear-like spots. 



Gyrose (Gr. guros, round), curved backward and forward in turn. 



Habit {habitus, appearance), the general appearance. 

 Habitat {habitatio, dwelling), the locality. 



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