]02 Mycological BiiUclin No. 26. [Vol. TIT 



MYCOLOGICAL GLOSSARY. 



Auric' itliitc : ear shaped. 



Attton'anioiis: said of plants that are complete in themselves and not a 

 part only of the life cycle. 



Bad'ifliis: bay. chestnut color, or reddish brown. 



Basidioiiicc'trs: the group of fungi that have spores borne on a basidium. 



Basid'iosporc: spores borne on a basidium. 



Basld'iujii (pi. hasidia) : an enlarged cell on which arc borne spores. 



Basip'ctal: proceeding toward the base. 



Bay: a rich dark reddish chestnut. 



Biloc'ular: having two cavities. 



Biog'cnous: growing on living plants or animals. 



Booted: said of a mushroom stem when encased in a sheath. 



Boss: an umbo, or short rounded protuberance. 



Byssa'ccous or byssoid: of fine filaments or byssus. 



Bys'sus: a fine filamentous mass. 



Cacs' pitosc : growing in tufts or clumps. 



Campan'itlatc : bell shaped. 



Can'ccUatc: latticed. 



Cancs'ccnt : having whitish or hoary pubescence. 



Cap: pileus of mushrooms. 



Capilli'tiuiu : capillary threads mixed with the spores in case of some 

 species. 



Carbonaceous: rigid, black and brittle. 



Car'inatc: with a keel or longitudinal line. 



Car' neons: flesh color. 



Car'nose: flesh color. 



Castan'cHs: chestnut color. 



Can' date: having a slender or tail-like appendage. 



Caulic' olous: growing on herbaceous or woody stems. 



Cell: the minute living mass of protoplasm which is the unit of structure 

 in organisms. The vegetable cell has a cell-wall in case of mush- 

 rooms and common plants. 



Cel'lnlar: composed of cells. 



Cel'lulose: the chemical substance (a carbohydrate) of which the vege- 

 table cell-wall is composed. 



Cera'ccous: like wax. 



Cere'brifonn : brain-shaped. 



Ccs'pitose: growing in tufts or clumps. 



Chartaceons: like paper. 



Clilain'ydospores: resting spores in rows formed by the breaking up of a 

 hypha into bead-like cells. 



Cilia (plural of ciiiitiii): marginal hairs or hair-like jirojcclions. 



Cil'iate: with cilia. 



Cine'reons: light bluish-gray, or ash-gray. 



Circnmscis'sile: breaking at or near the nn'ddle on etiuatorial line. 



Clalh'ratc: latticed. 



Cla'vate or Claf'iform: club-shaped, thickened toward top. 



Cluster-cups: the first stage (Aecidium) of the Rusts. 



Col'loid: like glue or jelly, not crystalline. 



Coluniel'la: a stalk extended into or through a spore case. 



Coinale, co)nflse. conunts: with a tuft of silky hairs, or hairy. 



Coni'planatc: flattened to a level surface altove and below. 



Concal'cnalc: linked together in a chain. 



Conccp'tacle: a closed spore-receptacle. 



Concol'orotis: of a uniform color. 



Concres'ccnt : growing together. 



Concrete grown together. 



Confcr'i'oid: loose and filamentous, like the alga Coifer^'a. 



[to he continued.] 



