28 ON THE STRUCTURAL ANATOMY OF FUNGI. 



Close, packed closely side by side ; also styled Crowded. 



Connate, conjoined at tlie posterior end. 



Crenulate, the edge incised with rounded notches. 



Decnrrent, the posterior end running some distance down the 

 Stem. 



Denticulate, the posterior end having a little tooth or spur. 



Deliquescent, melting into liquid as maturity advances. 



Distant, wide spaces between the Gills. 



Emarginate, Sinuate, having a sudden notch or vertical curve 

 at the extreme posterior. 



Entire, the edge quite devoid of serrature or notch. 



Equal, all Gills of the same or nearly the same regular length 

 from back to front. 



Eroded, the edge ragged, as if torn. 



Fixed, rigidly adherent on the upper edge. 



Free, ending posteriorly at a little distance from the Stem, and 

 not at all attached to it. 



Lanceolate, tapering by a rounded curve vertically at either end. 



Linear, narrow, and the upper and lower edges almost parallel. 



Moniliform, contracted at intervals in the length. 



Narrow, of very slight vertical width. 



Obtuse, rounded off at either end, vertically ; also Rounded. 



Pointed, either end finishing in a point. 



Projecting, the anterior end jutting out beyond the Margin. 



Remote, terminating behind some distance from the Stem. 



Rugulose, the sides wrinkled. 



Serrate, Serrulate, the edge more or less finely and sharply 

 notched or toothed in its length. 



Simple, not brajiched, divided, or connected together. 



Straight, the edge plane and even. 



Truncate, terminating abruptly and squarely at either end. 



Unequal, short imperfect Gills interspersed among the others. 

 The common condition. 



Venate, Veined, intersected by swollen wrinkles or veins, below 

 and on the sides. 



Ventricose, vertically widened or bellied out in the middle, 

 before, or belli nd. 



TUBES. Mushrooms of the order Polyporei have Tubes in 

 place of Gills, which are vertically set upon the under side of 

 the Pileus. Their superficial orifices, when seen on inverting the 



