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Even, distinguished from smootb : a sur- 

 face quite plane as contrasted with one 

 ■which is striate, pitted, etc. 



Exceiitric, out of center. The stems of 

 some mushrooms are always excentric. 



Exotic, foreign. 



Famili/, a systematic group in scientific 

 classification embracing a greater or 

 less number of genera which agree in 

 certain characters not shared by others 

 of the same order. 



Farinaceoufi, mealy. 



Faritiose, covered with a white, mealy 

 powder. 



Fascia, a baud or bar. 



Fasciate. zoned with bands. 



Fasciculate, growing in small bundles. 



Fastigiate. bundled together like a sheath. 



Favose. honeycombed. 



Fey'ruginoiis, rust-colored. 



Fibrillose, clothed with small fibers. 



Fibrous, composed of fibers. 



Filiform, thread-like. 



Fimbriated, fringed. 



Fissile, capable of being split. 



FistiUar, fistulose, tubular. 



Flabelliform., fan-shaped. 



Flavescent, j-ellowish, or turning yellow. 



Flexuose, wavy. 



Flocci, threads as of mold. 



Floccose, downy. 



Flocculose, covered with flocci. 



Foveolate, pitted. 



Free, in relation to the gills of mush- 

 rooms reaching the stem but not 

 attached to it. 



Fringe, a lacerated marginal membrane. 



Fructification, reproducing power of a 

 plant. 



Fugacious, disappearing rapidly. 



Furcate, forked. 



Fuliginous, blackish or sooty. 



Fulvous, tawny ; a rather indefinite brown- 

 ish yellow. 



Furfuraceous, with branny scales or scurf. 



Fuscous, brownish, but dingy ; not pure. 



Fusiform, spindle-shaped. 



Genera, plural of genus. 



Generic, pertaining to a genus. 



Genus, a group of species having one or 

 more characteristics in common ; the 

 union of several genera presenting the 

 same features constitutes a tribe. 



Gibbous, in the form of a swelling ; of a 

 pileus which is more convex or tumid 

 on one side than the other. 



Gills, vertical plates radiating from the 

 stem on the under surface of the mush- 

 room cap. 



Glabrous, smooth. 



Glau^escent, inclining to glaucose. 



Olaucose, covered with a whitish-green 

 bloom or fine white powder easily 

 rubbed oflF. 



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Globose, nearl}'' spherical. 

 Gratiular, with roughened surface. 

 Greaved, of a stem clothed like a leg in 



armor. 

 Gregarious, of ' mushrooms not solitary 



but growing in numbers in the same 



locality. 

 Grumous, clotted : composed of little 



clustured grains. 

 Guttate, mai'ked with tear-like spots. 

 Gyrose, circling in wavy folds. 

 Habitat, natural abode of a vegetable 



species. 

 Hepatic, pertaining to the liver : hence, 



liver-colored. 

 Heterogeneous, of a structure which is 



different from adjacent ones. 

 Hibernal, pertaining to winter. 

 Hirsute, hairy. 



Homogeneous, similar in structure. M 



Hyaline, transparent. ■ 



Hygroplianous, looking watery when moist 



and opaque when dry. 

 Hymenium, the fructifying surface of the 



mushroom ; the part on which the spores 



are borne. 

 Hymenophore, the structure which bears 



the hymenium. 

 Hypogceous, sublerranean. 

 Identification, the determination of the 



species to which a given specimen be- 

 longs. 

 Identify, to determine the systematic 



name of a specimen. 

 Imbricate, overlapped like tiles. i 



Immarginate, without a distinct border. ' 

 Immersed, sunk into the matrix. 

 Incised, cut out ; cut away. 

 IndeMscent, not opening. 

 Indigenous, native of a country. 

 Inferior, growing below ; of the ring of 



an agaric, which is far down on the 



stem. 

 Infundibuliform, funnel-shaped. 

 Innate, adhering by growing into. 

 Inserted, growing like a graft from its 



stock. 

 Involute, edges rolled inward. 

 Laciniate, divided into flaps. 

 lactescent, milk-bearing. 

 Lacunose, pitted or having cavities. 

 Lamella', gills of mushrooms. 

 Lanceolate, lance-shaped : tapering to 



both ends. 

 Lateral, attached to one side. 

 Latex, the viscid fluid contained in some 



mushrooms. 

 Laticiferous, applied to the tubes convey- 

 ing latex, as in the Lactarias. 

 Lepidote, scurfy with minute scales. 

 Leucospore, white spore. 

 Ligneous, woody consistency. 

 linear, narrow and straight. 

 Linguiform, tongue-shaped. 



AUTHORITIES CONSULTED. 

 Fries, Saccardo, Kromholtz, Cooke aud Berkeley, M. C. Cooke, Peck, Stevenson, 

 Badham, Gillet, Boyer, Gibson, Roques, Hussey, Hay, Bel, Paulet and Leveille, Con- 

 stantin and Dufour, Barla, Eoze, W. G. Smith, Vittadini. 



