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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Dendroid, shaped like a tree. 



Dentate, toothed. 



Denticulate, with small teeth. 



Dichotomous, paired, regularly forked. 



Dimidiate, halved, applied to gills not 

 entire. 



Disc (disk), the hymenial surface, usually 

 cup-shaped. 



Discomycetes, Ascomycetes with the 

 hymenium exposed. 



Dissepiments, dividing walls. 



Distant, applied to gills which are not 

 close. 



Discrete, distinct, not divided. 



Echinate, furnished with stiff bristles. 



Effused, spread over without regular form. 



Emarginate, when the gills are notched or 

 scooped out at junction with stem. 



Ephemeral, lasting but a short time. 



Epidermis, the external or outer layer of 

 the plant. 



Epiphytal, growing upon another plant. 



Eccentric, out of the center; stem not at- 

 tached to center of pileus. 



Exoperidium, outer layer of the peridium. 



Exotic, foreign. 



Explanate, flattened or expanded. 



Farinaceous, mealy. 



Farinose, covered with a mealy powder. 



Falcate, hooked or curved like a scythe. 



Fasciculate, growing in bundles. 



Fastigiate, bundled together with a sheath. 



Ferruginous, rust-colored. 



Fibrillose, clothed with small fibers. 



Fibrous, composed of fibers. 



Filiform, thread-like. 



Fimbriated, fringed. 



Fissile, capable of being split. 



Fistula r, fistulose, with the stem hollow or 

 becoming hollow. 



Flabelliform, fan-shaped. 



Flaccid, soft and flabby. 



Flavescent, turning yellow. 



Flexuose, wavy. 



Flocci, threads as of mold. 



Floccose, downy. 



Flocculose, covered with flocci. 



Free, said of gills not attached to the stem. 



Friable, easily crumbling. 



Fugacious, disappearing quickly. 



Fuliginous, sooty-brown or dark smoke- 

 color. 



Furcate, forked. 



Furfuraceous, with bran-like scales or 

 scurf. 



Fuscous, dingy, brownish or brown tinged 

 with gray. 



Fusiform, spindle-shaped. 



Gasteromyces, Basidiomycetes, in which 

 the hymenium is inclosed. 



Gelatinous, jelly-like. 



Genus, a group of closely related species. 



Gibbous, swollen at one point. 



Gills, plates radiating from the stem on 

 which the basidia are borne. 



Glabrous, smooth. 



Glaucous, with a white bloom. 



Gleba, the spore-bearing tissue, as in puff- 

 balls and ohalloids. 



Globose, nearly round. 



Granular, with a roughened surface. 



Gregarious, growing in numbers in the 

 same vicinity. 



Habitat, the natural place of growth of a 

 plant. 



Hirsute, hairy. 



Host, the plant or animal on which a 

 parasitic fungus grows. 



Hyaline, transparent, clear like glass. 



Hygrophanous, looking watery when moist 

 and opaque when dry. 



Hygrometric, readily absorbing water. 



Hymenium, the fruit-bearing surface. 



Hymenophore, the portion which bears the 

 hymenium. 



Hypha, one of the elongated cells or 

 threads of the fungus. 



Imbricate, overlapping like shingles. 



Immarginate, without a distinct border. 



Incarnate, flesh-color. 



Indehi scent, not opening. 



Indigenous, native of a country or a place. 



Indurated, hardened. 



Indusium, a veil beneath the pileus. 



Inferior, the ring low down on the stem 

 of Agarics. 



Infundibuliform, funnel-shaped. 



Innate, adhering by growth. 



Involute, edges rolled inward. 



Isabelline, color of sole leather, brownish- 

 yellow. 



Laccate, varnished or coated with wax. 



Lacerate, irregularly torn. 



Laciniate, divided into lobes. 



Lacunose, pitted or having cavities. 



Lamella (lamellae), gills of a mushroom. 



Lanate, wooly. 



Leucospore, white spore. 



Livid, bluish-black. 



Luteous. vellowish. 



Maculate, spotted. 



Marginate, having a distinct border. 



Micaceous, covered with glistening scales, 

 mica-like. 



Micron, one-thousandth of a millimeter, 

 nearly .00004 of an inch. 



Mycelium, the delicate threads from ger- 

 minating spores, called spawn. 



Nigrescent, becoming black. 



Obconic, inversely conical. 



Obovate, inversely egg-shaped. 



Obese, stout, plump. 



Ochraceous, ochre-yelllow, brownish-yellow. 



