GLOSSARY 



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Pallid, pale, undecided in color. 



Papillate, covered with soft tubercles. 



Paraphyses, sterile cells found among the 

 reproductive cells of some plants. 



Parasitic, growing on and deriving support 

 from another plant. 



Pectinate, toothed like a comb. 



Peridium, the outer covering of a puff- 

 ball, simple or double. 



Perithecia, bottle-like receptacles contain- 

 ing asci. 



Peronate. used when the stem has a dis- 

 tinct stocking-like coat. 



Persistent, inclined to adhere firmly. 



Pileate, having a cap or pileus. 



Pileolus (pi. pileoli), a secondary pileus, 

 arising from the primary one. 



Pileus (pileus, a hat), the cap-like head 

 of a fungus. 



Pilose, covered with hairs, furry. 



Pore, the opening of the tubes of a poly- 

 porus. 



Pruinose, covered with a frost-like bloom. 



Pubescent, downy. 



Pulverulent, covered with dust. 



Pulvinate, cushion-shaped. 



Putrescent, soon decaying. 



Punctate, dotted with points. , 



Refiexed, bent backwards. 



Reniform, kidney-shaped. 



Repand, bent or turned up or back. 



Resupinate, attached to the matrix by the 

 back. 



Reticulate, marked with cross-lines, like 

 the meshes of a net. 



Revolute, rolled backward or upward. 



Rimose, cracked or full of clefts. 



Rimulose, covered with small cracks. 



Ring, a part of the veil adhering to the 

 stem of Agarics. 



Rubescent, tending to a red-color. 



Rubiginous, rust-color. 



Rufescent, reddish in color. 



Rugose, wrinkled. 



Rufous, brownish-red. 



Sapid, agreeable to the taste. 



Saprophyte, a plant that lives on decaying 

 animal or vegetable matter. 



Scrobiculate. marked with little pits or de- 

 pressions. 



Serrate, saw-toothed. 



Sinuate, wavy margin of gills or sinus 

 where they reach the stem. 



Spa thu late, in the form of a spathula. 



Spawn, the popular name for mycelium, 

 used in growing mushrooms. 



Spores, the reproductive bodies of mush- 

 rooms. 



Sporophore, name given to the basidia. 



Squamose, having scales. 



Squamulose. covered with small scales. 



Squarrose, rough with scales. 



Stigmata, the slender supports of the spores. 



Stipitatc, having a stem. 



Striate, streaked with lines. 



Strigose, covered with lines sharp and rigid. 



Strobiliform, pineapple-shaped. 



Stuffed, stem filled with different material 

 from the walls. 



Sulcate, furrowed. 



Tawny, nearly the color of tanned leather. 



Terete, top-shaped. 



Tesselated, arranged in small squares. 



Tomentose, downy, with short hairs. 



Trama, the substance between the plates of 

 gills. 



Truncate, cut squarely off. 



Tubercle, a small wart-like excrescence. 



Turbinate, top-shaped. 



Umbillicate, having a central depression. 



Umbo, the boss of a shield, applied to the 

 central elevation of cap. 



Umbonate, having a central boss-like ele- 

 vation. 



Uncinate, hooked. 



Undulate, wavy. 



Vaginate, sheathed. 



Veil, a partial covering of stem or margin 

 of pileus. 



Veliforim, a thin veil-like covering. 



Venate or veined, intersected by swollen 

 wrinkles below and on the sides. 



Ventricose, swollen in the middle. 



Vernicose, shining as if varnished. 



Verrucose, covered with warts. 



Villose, villous, covered with long, weak 

 hairs. 



Viscid, covered with a shiny liquid which 

 adheres to the fingers ; sticky. 



Viscous, gluey. 



Volute, rolled up in any direction. 



Volva, a universal veil. 



Zoned, zonate, marked with concentric 

 bands of color. 



