)08 Glossary. 



Reticulate^ covered by lines or ridges wliicli cross eacli other and form 

 a network. 



Saprophyte, as opposed to parasite, a fungus which Hves upon dead 



organic matter only. 

 Scattered, spread about, not localized in distinct groups or clusters. 

 Sclerotium, an old genus of fungi, comprising hard compact bodies 



which are now known to be the resting condition of the mycelium. 

 Separate, as applied to the teleutospores, distinct from one another, not 



compacted into a solid mass. 

 Septate, partitioned off into compartments. 

 Sorus, a heap or cluster of spores, a spore-bed. 

 Sperniatiiiin, a minute cell abstricted from a hypha. These hyphse 



are contained in a receptacle called a spermogonium. By some 



botanists a male sexual function is attributed to the spermatia 



of the Uredineas. 

 SperDiogoniiiin, the receptacle which encloses the spermatia. 

 Spherical, globose, in the form of a sphere. 

 Spore, a cell which, on becoming free, has the faculty of reproducing 



the fungus. 

 Sporophore, a mycelial hypha that bears spores. 

 Sterigiiia, the cell from which spores are abjointed or abstricted ; the 



same as basidium. 

 Stih, a prefix implying a slight degree of anything. 



Teleittospore, the last-formed spore in the life-cycle of the Uredineje 

 and Ustilagineee, which germinates by the production of a promy- 

 celium and promycelial spores. 



Trabecula, literally a little beam ; a small band of tissue joining others 

 together, often transverse in direction. 



Trichogyne, the threadlike filament in lichens which, becoming im- 

 pregnated above by the spermatia, gives rise below to the carpo- 

 gonium or perithecium. 



Truncate, cut off abruptly. 



Urceolate, shaped like a pitcher with a contracted mouth. 



Uredo, the old generic name applied to the uredospores. 



Uredospore, a spore which is abjointed from the apex of a mycelial 

 hypha, endowed with a limited period of vitality, and germinating 

 by the emission of a germ-tube, which develops into a mycelium. 



Verrucceforiii, shaped like a wart. 

 Verrucose, covered with small warts. 



Yeast-spore, a spore produced by budding from another spore. 

 Generally these spores occur in large numbers, and are then called 

 yeast-colonies. 



