GLOSSARY 503 



Scrobiculate [scrobis, a trench), marked with small pits. 



Separating", becoming detached, as gills from a stem, or resupinate fungi from 

 the matrix. 



Septate, divided. 



Septum [septum, a hedge), a division. 

 Serrate [serra, a saw), toothed like a saw. 

 Serrulate, minutely toothed. 

 Sessile [sedeo, to sit), seated without a stem. 

 Setae [seta, a bristle), bristles. 

 Setulose, resembling a fine bristle. 

 Simple, applied to a stem without ring or volva. 



Sinuate, waved ; of a pileus with a wavy or curved margin ; of gills with a 

 sudden wave, curve or sinus where they reach the stem. 



Sinus [simis), a curve. 



Smooth, applied to a surface which is destitute of hairs or other protuberances. 



Spathulate (Gr. spathe, a spatula), spoon-like. 



Spawn, see Mycelium. 



Sphaeriae, small spherical black fungi common on branches. 



Spiculae [spiculum, a small needle), fine erect acutely pointed spines. 



Spinulose [spina, a thorn), bearing fine spines. 



Sporangium (Gr. spora, a seed, aggeion, a vessel), a spore-bearing receptacle. 



Spores (Gr. spora, a seed), the analogues of seeds of flowering plants. 



Sporidia, diminutive of spores — small spores. 



Sporophore (Gr. spora, a seed, phoreo, to carry), the part which bears the 



hymenial surface. 

 Squamose [squama, a scale), scaly. 

 Squamule, a small scale. 

 Squamulose, covered with small scales. 

 Squarrose [squarrosus, rough, scurfy), rough with scales. 

 Sterigma (Gr. sterigma, a prop), pi. sterigmata, the slender thread which carries 



a spore. 

 Stipes [stipes), a stalk. 

 Stipitate, stemmed. 



Stoloniferous [stolo, a short sucker or runner, fero, to bear), stolon-bearing. 

 Stoma (Gr. stoma, a mouth), the mouth through which the spores escape in 



certain fungi, as Geaster, Tulostoma, etc. 

 Striate [stria, a furrow, flute of a column), marked with lines in the form of 



channels. 

 Strigas [striga, a swathe), small straight hair-like scales. 

 Strigose, rough with sharp-pointed hairs, hispid. 

 Stroma (Gr. stroma, a mattress), a cushion-like body in which the perithecia of 



some fungi are immersed. 

 Stuffed, of a stem filled with substance of a different texture from its walls. 

 Subiculum [subiculum, an under layer), the felted or byssoid mycelium of a 



resupinate fungus, forming the under layer bearing the hymenium. 

 Sulcate [sulcus, a furrow), marked with grooves. 

 Superior [super, above), applied to the annulus when it is near the apex of 



the stem. 



Terete [teres, rounded), circular in transverse section. 

 Tessellate [tessellatus, squared stones), checquered. 



