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Band, ii broad bar of color. 



Banded, marked with bunds. 



lUn-hed, fiirnisbed with fibrils or hairs. 



Banidid, coHnlar processes of certain 

 inushroom-bouriug spores. 



Bthliography, condensed history of the 

 literature of a subject. 



Bifurcdted, divided into two, as in the 

 gills of certain aujaries. 



Booted, ai)plied to the stem of a mushroom 

 when inclosed in a sheath or volva. 



BoKH, a knob or short rounded pro- 

 tuberance. 



Boused, bullate, furnished with a b(.)ss or 

 knob. 



Branchfd, dividing from the sides: also 

 styled furcate and forked. 



Brick, trade term for a mass of mushroom 

 spawn, in dimensions the size of a brick 

 of masonry. 



liroad, wide or deep vertically. 



BiiUwus, having the structure of a bulb. 



Cepxpitose, growing in tufts. 



Calcareonx, chalky, chalk-like. 



Calyptnt, applied to the portion of volva 

 covering the pileus. 



Campanuldte, bell-shaped. 



Canaliculate, c-hanneled. 



Cancelldte, latticed, mai'ked both longi- 

 tudinally and transversely. 



Cap, the expanded, umbrella-like recep- 

 tacle of the common mushroom. 



Cajnllitium, spore-bearing threads, vari- 

 able in thickness and color, sometimes 

 continuous with the sterile base, some- 

 times free, dense, and persistent, or lax 

 and evanescent, often branched ; found 

 in the Lycoperdons. 



Carious, decayed. 



Cameo UK, fleshj-. 



Cartilaginous, hard and tough. 



Castaneous, chestnut color. 



Ceraceous, wax-like. 



Channeled, hollowed out like a gutter. 



Chlorosis, loss of color. 



Cilia, marginal hair-like processes. 



Ciliate, fringed with hair-like processes. 



Cinerous, ash-colored. 



Circinate, rounded. 



Clathrate, latticed. 



Clavate, club-shaped, gradually thickened 

 upward. 



Close, packed closely side by side : also 

 styled crowded. 



Columella, a sterile tissue rising column- 

 like in the midst of the capillitium, 

 serving as a point of insertion for the 

 threads which connect it with the pe- 

 ridium in the form of a net-work. 



Concentric, having a common center, as a 

 series of rings one within another. 



Connate, united by growing, as when two 

 or more caps become united. 



Concolored, of a uniform color. 



Confervoid, from the finely branched 

 threads. 



Continuous, without a break, of a surface 

 which is not cracked, or of one part 

 which runs into another without inter- 

 ruption. 



Coi'date, heart-shaped. 



Citriareoiis, of a leathery texture. 



(.'orruf/itted, drawn into wrinkles or fohls. 



Ciirtii'iilid, furnished willi a bark-like 

 covering. 



Cortina, a partial veil formed not of con- 

 tinuous tissue but of slender threads, 

 wliich in certain muslirooins when 

 young unite the stem with the margin 

 of the <-a}). This memlirano n^mains 

 later as a filamentous ring on the stem, 

 or threads hanging to the margin of 

 cap. Applied to the peculiar veil of 

 the Cortinarias. 



(■ratera, a cup-shaped receptacle. 



Crenate, crenulate, notched at the edge, 

 the notches blunt or rounded, not sharp 

 as in a serrated edge, serratnres convex. 



Cribrose, pi&rced with holes. 



Cri/ptof/ainia, ap])lied to the division of 

 nonflowering plants. 



(hipreoxis, copjier-colored. 



Cuspidate, with a sharp, spear-like point. 



CyatJiiform, cup-shaped . 



Cystidia, sterile cells of the hymenium, 

 generally larger than the basidia cells, 

 witl'. which they are found. 



Deciduous, temporary falling oil'. 



Decurrent, as when the gills of a uiush- 

 I'oom are prolonged down the stem. 



De/iiscent, a closed organ opening of it- 

 self at maturity, or when it has attain- 

 ed a certain development. 



Delif/uescent, relating to mushrooms 

 which at maturity become liquid. 



Dentate, toothed, with concave serratnres. 



Denticulate, finely dentate. 



Dermini, brown or rust-colored spores. 



Determinate, ending definitely ; having a 

 distinctly defined outline. 



Jiiapltaiious, transparent. 



Dichotomous, paired by twos ; regularly 

 forked. 



Dimidiate, applied to some gills of mush- 

 rooms which reach only halfway to the 

 stem. 



Disciform, of a circular, flat form. 



Dissepiments, dividing walls. 



Distant, applied to gills which have a 

 wide distance between them. 



Dicancate, separating at an obtuse angle. 



Echinate, furnished with stift" bristles. 



Echinulate, with minute bristles. 



Effused, spread over without regular form. 



Elongate, lengthened. 



Emarginate, applied to gills which ai*e 

 notched or scooped out suddenly before 

 they reach the stem. 



Embryo, the mushroom before leaving its 

 volva or egg stage : also any early stage 

 of mushrooms which may have no volva. 



Entire, the edge quite devoid of serrature 

 or notch. 



Epidermis, the external or outer layer of 

 the plant. 



Epiphytal, growing upon another plant. 



Equal, all gills of the same, or nearly the 

 same length from back to front. 



Eroded, the edge ragged, as if torn. 



Etiolated, whitened, bleached. 



