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AIYCOLOGICAL GLOSSARY. 



Egi^: applied to the young mushroom hcfore the volva lias ruptured in 



Plialloids, Amanitas, etc. 

 Egut'tulalc: without guttae or guttulae. 

 Emar'ginatc : with a notch; gills may he emarginate or with a sinus or 



notch near the stem. 

 Hndol^cn'd'iuin: an inner layer of the peridium. 

 En'dosporc : the inner coat or wall of a spore. 

 Eiitoiuog'ciious- growing from insects. 

 Fhidcr'mis: a distinct outer layer. 

 Efig'cnous: growing on the surface of a plant. 

 Epigac'us: growing on the ground. 

 F.pifhyl'liis: growing on the upper side of the leaf. 

 Ep'ispore: the inner coat or wall of a spore. 

 E,pithc'ciniii: the layer sometimes formed on a hymenium by the union 



of the tips of paraphyses above the asci. 

 E.pix'yloits: growing on wood. 

 Enmi'pcnt: breaking through the epidermis or through the surface of 



the matrix. 

 E.vccn'tric: out of the center; as stem not attached to center of pilcus. 

 E.Ycip'iiliuit : outer layer of an Apothecium. 

 Exopcrid'itiin: outer layer of the peridium. 

 E.v'osporc: the outer coat or wall of a spore. 

 Ex'plaiiatc: flattened, expanded. 

 Exscr'tcd: projecting; standing out. 

 Exsicca'fi: dried specimens; sets of specimens. 

 I'acitltatii'c-parasitr: a fungus normally saprophytic but which may live 



for a time or a part of its life cycle as a parasite. 

 Facultafivc-saprophytc : a fungus normally parasitic but which may live 



for a time or a part of its life cycle as a saprophyte. 

 Fal'catc: hooked or curved like a scythe. 

 Purina' ccous: mealy. 



Far'inosc: covered with a white mealy jiowder. 

 Pcrru'ginous: rust-red. 

 Pilifonn: thread-like. 

 Piin'hriatc : fringed. 



I-is'tulosr: with stem hollow, or becoming hollow. 

 Plab'cllatr : fan-shaped. 

 I'lalu'l'lifcni! : fan-shaped. 

 Plac'cid: soft rmd flal)l)y. 

 h' lares' ceil I : turning yellow or yellowish, 

 Ploc'cosc: woolly, with woolly locks or flocci. 

 Ploc'culasc : minutely fluccose 

 Po'vcatc: with pits on depressions. 

 Pox'c'olatc : with small pits. 

 prcc: said of gills not attached to tlu- stem. 

 Pri'ahlc: easily crumbling. 



Pnga'ccous: falling or fading early, dis-iiipearing. 

 I'uUgin'cons. fuUg'iuoiis: sooty-brown nr dark smoke color, 

 Pnl'fous: tawny, yellowish-brown tint 

 Puu'gns (pi. fungi): mushrooms and dtlur "Idw" plants that are of >-implc 



structure, destitute of chlorophyll .md cnn^e(iuently nuist live a'^ para- 

 sites or saprophytes. 

 Pu! fit ra'c rolls: with brown scaler, 



I'lis'cotis: dingy, brownish, nr brnwn tinged with .LT.-iy. 

 Pu'sifonn : spindle-shaped 

 Piisiiid: like a spindk : fusiform. 

 (I'dslrriiiiivte'lrw those luisi<linniy( eli's in which the bymeniuni is enclosed 



in a sack-like envel(>i)e. a- the I'uffballs, 



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