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MYCOLOGICAI, GLOSSARY. 



Insiti'tious: inserted. 



I titer' calory: inserted between. 



In' tercel' hilar : between cells. 



In' tracer hilar: within the cell. 



Intiimcs'eent: becoming swollen. 



Invag'inaicd: sheathed. 



In' volute: rolled inwards. 



Isabel' Une: color of sole leather, brownish yellow. 



Lac'cate: varnished or coated as with ceiling wax. 



Lacerate: irregularly torn. 



Lachuate: cut into many lobes or threads. 



Lacfes'cent: with milky juice. 



Lacu'na: a pit or cavity. 



Lac'unose: pitted. 



Laniel'la (pi. lamellae) : gill of a mushroom bearing the hymenium. 



La'nate: woolly. 



Lateri'cious: of brick color. 



Latex: milky juice of plants. ' 



Latieif'erous: bearing latex. 



Lax: not compact, flaccid. 



Lcp'idote: scurfy with minute scales. 



Leucospor'ae: the group of Agarics that have white spores. 



i.ei''igate: with a polished surface. 



Lig'natile: growing on wood. 



Ligneous: growing on wood. 



Lig'ulate: flattened and strap-like. 



Liv'id: bluish-black, color of a flesh bruise. 



Loc'ular: divided into cavities; as trilocular, three cavities. 



Lit' men: cavity; cavity formed by cell wall. 



Lu'rid: color between purple, yellow and gray; dirty brown. 



Lu'teous: yellowish; buff-like or clay color. 



Lutes'cent : yellowish; becoming luteous. 



Mac'ulate: spotted. 



Mam'miforni: l)reast-like ; teat-like. 



Marginal fcii: in x^garics the veil extending from margin of pilcus to stem. 



Ma'trix: the substance on which or in which a fungus grows. 



Me'dial: as of an annulus when at the middle of the stem. 



Medulla: inner sub.stance extending to the cortical portion. 



Melanospn'rac: the black-spored Agarics. 



Meris' nii'id : like Alerisma. that is, a pileus divided into many small piloi. 



Mes'opod : a plant having a central stem. 



Micaceous: covered with glistening scales. 



Mic'ron (pi. niicra or microns): the M or one-thousandth of a millimeter; 

 it is nearly .00004 of an inch. 



Mil'limeter: the thousandtl-t of a meter, and a thousand micra, or M, 

 nearly one twenty-fifth of an inch. 



Min'iate: vivid red or vermillion color. 



Mi'trate. Mitriforni : bonnet-shaped, mitre-shaped. 



Mold, mould: may refer to fine organic earth as leaf-mold, or to the com- 

 mon fungi on foods, etc., as Penicillium, Alucor, etc. 



Monil'iforni: like a string of beads. 



Morphology: this as contrasted with Physiology (which deals with func- 

 tion) refers to structure of parts, particularly their intori)retation as 

 based on their origin and development. 



Mucc'dinous- resembling the mildews or moulds. 



Mu'cro: a short abrupt point. 



Mu'crouate: with a short abrupt point. 



Mullipar'life: divided into mnny parts. 



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