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Ring, part of the veil, in agarics, &c., adhering to the stem and forming a 



ring, or collar, which sometimes becomes free afterwards. 

 Rivulose, marked with lines, like rivers in a map. 

 ftostellate, having an elongated neck, extending beyond the surface of the 



matrix. 

 Rostrate, having a long free neck. 

 Scrobiculate, marked with little pits. 

 Scutelloefoim, shield-like. 

 Septate, having partitions. 



Sinuated, when gills are suddenly waved just before they reach the stem. 

 Sphoerostomse, having a globular ostiolum. 

 Spicules, the points, to which the spores are attached. 

 Sporangia, large vesicular bodies, containing sporidia, or distinct organisms 



producing spores in the centre. 

 Spores, productive cells, borne freely on sporophores. 

 Sporidia, reproductive cells produced within asci. 

 Sporophores, cells surmounted by fertile spicules. 

 Squarrose, rough with projecting scales. 

 Strigose, rough with bundles of hairs. 

 Stroma, the substance in which perithecia are immersed in the compound 



sphceriacei. 

 Stuffed, when a stem is filled with a cottony web, or a spongy mass distinct 



from the walls. 

 Sub, used in composition to denote a slight degree of anything. 

 Subiculum, the filamentous mycelium of some sphoerise. 

 Subulate, awl-shaped. 

 Sulcate, furrowed. 

 Trama, the substance intermediate between the hymenium in the gills of agarics, 



or pores of polyporus. 

 Tremelloid, shaking like a jelly. 



Umbilicate, with a somewhat definite central depression. 

 Umbonate, with a central boss. 

 Uncinate, hooked. 



Veil, a partial covering of the stem or margin of the pileus. 

 Ventricose, swelling out in the middle. 

 Vermiculate, worm-shaped. 

 Verrucceform, wart-shaped. 

 Versiform, variously shaped. 

 Vesicular, having a bladder like sporangium. 

 Villose, covered with down. 

 Virgate, streaked, or with wand-like branches. 

 Volva, a general wrapper, sometimes membraneous, sometimes gelatinous. 



