GLOSSARY 



PITH (of stem i, the Bofl tissue in the interior, which often dis 



appears bo thai the stem becomes hollow. 

 PLANE, (of pileus), wiili ;i flal Burface. 

 PLIANT, ao1 rigid dot firm : easilj bent. 

 PLICATE, (of pileus), plaited ; Folded like a fan. 

 PLUMBEOUS, (color), like lead. 

 PLUMOSE, finely reathery. 

 POROSE, (of hymenophore), approaching the condition of po8»< 



iDg pores. 

 POSTERIOR, (of gills), behind, toward the stem. 

 PRAEMORSE, (of the "root" or base oi Btera), .1- it broken off 



abruptly. 

 PROLIFEROUS, (of stem), producing other Btems on itself near 



1 he base. 

 PROTEAN, exceedingly variable. 

 PROTOPLASM, the b\ving Bemifluid Bubstance of the cells which la 



the basis of life. 

 PRU1 NATE, same as pruinose. 

 PRUINOSE, (on the surface), as if finely powdered. 

 PSEUDOPARENCHYMA, the tissue of fungi when it- cellular 



Btructure imitates the parenchyma of higher plants. 

 PSEUDOPROSENCHYMA, tissue of fine elongated byphae, some 



what resembling tlu> prosenchyma of higher plants. 

 PUBES< 5ENCE, a covering of Bhort, soft, downy hairs. 

 PUBESCENT, provided with pubescence. 

 pi rLVERULENT, covered as it with powder. 

 PUN< !TATE, (of pileusor stem), dotted with minute scales or other 



substance. 

 PUTRESCENT, Boon decaying and becoming soft an.l mushy. 

 PYRIFORM, i"!' cystidia or cells), pear-shaped. 

 PYRAMIDAL, (of Bcales), pyramid-shaped. 

 QUADRATE, (of Bpores), angularly four-sided. 

 K.\ DI< 'ATI \< '.. I of stem l, imitating a root 

 RAM I II' IATK »N. branching. 



REFLEX ED, (of margin of pileus), turned up or back. 

 REMOTE, (of .-ill-', free and at some distance from the stem; 



annulus), al some distance from .i|»'\ of stem. 

 RENIFORM, (of pileus), kidnej shaped. 

 REPAND, (of pileus), wavj on margin and turned back or el< 

 RESUPINATE, (of pileus), with the upper surface reclining on the 



substratum, the gills facing outward. 

 RESUPINATE-REFLEXED, (of pileus), attached for some ilia 



