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MYCOLOGICAL GLOSSARY. 



Serrate: margin with saw-like teeth. 



Ser'rulatc: minutely serrate. ■■ 



Ses'sile: attached directly to the base; without stem. 



Se'ta : a bristle or stift hair. ! 



Seta'eeovs, seti'gerous, or se'tose: bristly. 



Set'ulose: finely setaceous. 



Sig'moid: S-shaped. ' \ 



Sinuate, sintiose sinuous: waved or serpentine. 



Si'nus: the curve between two lobes. 



Smooth: destitute of hairs (not necessarily an even surface). 



Sordid: of a dirty dingy hue. < 



Spadie'eous: date-brown, /'. e.. a dull dark brown. 



Sf>ath'ulate: shaped like a spathula or spoon. 



Spat'ulate: shaped like a spatula or spoon. 



Speeies: a .group of individuals that are alike or of one kind. 



Spic'ule: a minute point or slender granule. 



Spin'ule: a small spine or slender prickle. 



Spore: the minute simple reproductive body of the Alushrooms and other 



plants similar in function to the seed or complex structure of the 



common plants. The terms spore, sporule, sporidium, conidium, etc.. 



are often used indiscriminately. 

 Spo'rocarp: the fruiting portion (not the vegetative part) of the Ascomy- 



cetes. 



Sporid'ium: see spore 



Spo'rophorc: the hypha or other part that bears spores. 



Sporule: see spore. 



S qua' ma: a scale. 



Squa'mose, squa'mous: scale-like or with scales. 



Sqiia'innla : a little scale. 



Sqnamuli'se. sqitamulous ' with small scales or squamae. 



Squar'rose: rough with scales or projecting points. 



Sterig'ma (pi. sterig'mata) : a little stalk on a basidium bearing the spore. 



Stif>e: the stem of a mushroom. 



Sti'pitate: with a stipe, or stem. 



Sto'ina (pi. stomata) : an opening or mouth. 



Straight: a term applied to the edge of a pileus when not involute. 



Strami'neous: of straw or straw-color. 



Stra'tosc: in distinct strata or layers. 



Stri'ate: marked with parallel lines, or striae. 



Strobil'oform : like a pine cone. 



Stro'ma (pi. stro'mata) : a compact mycelium on or in which perithecia 

 or other organs of fructification are produced. 



Stuffed: said of a mushroom stem if filled within by material of a texture 

 different from that of the wall. 



Suh-glcba: '.he basal portion of the glcba. 



Suhie'ulum: a layer of hyphae covering the matrix and over which is the 

 hymenium. 



Suhstra'tinu : the m:ilrix, or that on which the mushroom grows. 



Sul'catc: with furrows or grooves. 



Superior: said of the ring or annulus when near upper end of stem. 



Svmbio'sis: living together of two organisms in mutual dependence. 



Tclcu'tosporc: the thick walled winter spore, or end-spore in a series of 

 the life-cycle of i)olynior])hic forms, for example, the winter spores 

 of the Rusts. 



Tes'selated : checkered in a regular manner. 



Testa'ceous: brick-red. 



Thal'iophyte : one of the lower plants whose body is a I'haUus (not differ- 

 entiated into sl'MU. leaf. etc.). 



[to v.v. continuf.p.] 



