GLOSSARY. 



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Abortive, imperfectly developed. 



Aberrant, deviating from a type. 



Acicular, needle-shaped. 



Aculeate, slender pointed. 



Acuminate, terminating in a point. 



Acute, sharp pointed. 



Adnate, gills squarely and firmly attached 

 to the stem. 



Adnexed, gills just reaching the stem. 



Adhesion, union of different organs or 

 tissues. 



Adpressed, pressed into close contact, as 

 applied to the gills. 



Agglutinated, glued to the surface. 



Alveolate, honey-combed. 



Alutaceous, having the color of tanned 

 leather. 



Anastomosing, branching, joining of one 

 vein with another. 



Annual, completing growth in one year. 



Annular, ring-shaped. 



Annulate, having a ring. 



Annulus, the ring around the stem of a 

 mushroom. 



Apex, in mushrooms the extremity of the 

 stem next to the gills. 



Apical, close to the apex. 



Apiculate, terminating in a small point. 



Appendiculate, hanging in small fragments. 



Applanate, flattened out or horizontally ex- 

 panded. 



Arachnoid, cobweb-like. 



ArcuXate, bow-shaped. 



Areofate, pitted, net-like. 



Ascus, spore case of certain mushrooms. 



Ascomycetes, a group of fungi in which 

 the spores are produced in sacs. 



Ascospore, hymenium or sporophore bear- 

 ing an ascus or asci. 



Atomate, sorinkled with atoms or minute 

 particles. 



Atro (ater, black), in composition "black" 

 or "dark." 



Atropurpureous, dark purple (purpura, 

 purple). 



Aurantlaceous, orange-colored (aurantium, 

 an orange). 



Aureous. golden-yellow. 



Auriculate, ear-shaped. 



Azonate, without zones or circular bands. 



Badious, bay, chestnut-color, or reddish- 

 brown. 



Basidium (pi. basidia), an enlarged cell on 

 which spores are borne. 



Basidiomycetes, the group of fungi that 

 have spores borne on a basidium. 



Bifid, cleft or divided into two parts. 



Booted, applied to the stem of mushrooms 

 when inclosed in a volva. 



Boss, a knob or short rounded protuber- 

 ance. 



Bossed, furnished with a boss or knob, 

 bulbate. 



Byssus, a fine filamentous mass. 



Caespitose, growing in tufts. 



Calyptra, applied to the portion of volva 

 covering the pileus. 



Campanulate, bell-shaped. 



Cap, the expanded, umbrella-like receptacle 

 of a common mushroom. 



Capillitium, spore-bearing threads, often 

 much branched, found in puffballs. 



Carnose, flesh-color. 



Cartilaginous, hard and tough. 



Castaneous, chestnut-color. 



Ceraceous, wax-like. 



Cerebriform, brain-shaped. 



Cespitose, growing in tufts. 



Cilia, marginal hair-like processes. 



Ciliate, fringed with hair-like processes. 



Cinereous, light bluish gray or ash gray. 



Circumscissile, breaking at or near the mid- 

 dle on equatorial line. 



Circinate, rounded. 



Clavate, club-shaped, gradually thickened 

 upward. 



Columella, a sterile tissue rising column- 

 like in the midst of the Capillitium. 



Concrete, grown together. 



Continuous, without a break,, one part run- 

 ning into another. 



Cordate, heart-shaped. 



Coriaceous, of a leathery or a cork-like tex- 

 ture. 



Cortex, outer or rind-like layer. 



Cortina, the web-Ike veil of the genus Cor- 

 tinarius. 



Cortinate, with a cortina. 



Costate, with a ridge or ridges. 



Crenate, notched, indented or escalloped 

 at the edge. 



Cryptogamia, applied to the division of 

 non-flowering plants. 



Cyathiform, cup-shaped. 



Cyst, a bladder-like cell or cavity. 



Cystidium (pi. cystidia), sterile cells of the 

 hymenium, bladder-like. 



Deciduous, of leaves falling off. 



Decurrent, as when the gills of a mushroom 

 are prolonged down the stem. 



Dehiscent, a closed organ opening of itself 

 at maturity. 



Deliquescent, melting down, becoming 

 liquid. 



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