882 THE AGARICACEAE OP MICHIGAN 



CINEREOUS, (color), ashy-gray. 



CINNABAR, (color), vemiillion, red. 



CINNAMON, (color), cinnamon-brown. 



CIRCUMSCISSILE, (of volva). See page 593. 



CITRINE, lemon-yellow. 



CLAVATE, (of stem), thickened toward base, like a club; (of 

 basidia and cystidia), thickened at apex, club-shaped. 



CLAVATE-BULBOUS, (of stem), with a bulb which tapers gradu- 

 ally upwards. 



CLAY-COLOR, argillaceous. 



CLOSE, (of gills), halfway between crowded and subdistant; a rela- 

 tive term. 



COBWEBBY, (of veil), composed of threads fine as those of a cob- 

 web. 



COCHLEATE, (of pileus), twisted like a shell. 



COERULEOUS, (color), sky-blue. 



COHERENT, (of stems), grown together. 



COMPRESSED, (of stem), flattened lengthwise. 



CONCAVE, (of pileus), round-depressed like a bowl. 



CONCENTRIC, (of zonation, etc.), rings or zones within one an- 

 other in a series. 



CONCHATE, (of pileus), resembling an oyster shell in shape. 



CONCOLOR, (of gills and stem), when of the same color as the 

 pileus. 



CONCOLOROUS, same as concolor. 



CONFLUENT, (of flesh of stem), continuous with trama of pileus 



and of similar texture. 

 CONGLOBATE, (of base of stems), collected into a fleshy mass. 

 CONIDIUM, (see secondary spores), thin-walled spores developed 



on mycelium or on the hyphae of the fruit-body. 

 CONIDIA, plural of conidium. 

 CONIDIAL, relating to conidia. 



CONIDIOPHORE, the specialized hypha bearing a conidium. 

 CONIFER, mostly evergreen trees bearing cones 

 CONIFEROUS, said of forests or wood of conifer trees 

 CONNATE, (of stems), grown together. 



CONNIVENT, (of margin of pileus), converging on the stem. 

 CONSISTENCY, the firmness, density or solidity of the tissues 



which compose the parts of the fruit-bodv 

 CONTEXT, the trama. 



CONTINUOUS, (of stem), same as confluent. 

 CONVEX, (of pileus), regularly rounded, broadly obtuse, etc. 



