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GLOSSARY. 



Abnormal. Differing from the usual form. 



Aculeate. Prickly; beset with prickles. 



Aculeolale. Beset with diminutive prickles. 



Adnate. Grown to; firmly united. 



Amorphous. Shapeless; without form. 



Amphigenous. Growing on both sides. 



Anastomosing. Connected by transverse 

 branches so as to form a more or less 

 perfect network. 



Annular. In the form of a ring. 



Aparaphysate. Without paraphyses. 



Areolate. Marked out into small spaces. 



Ascospores. Spores produced in asci. 



Ascus. The membranaceous sac containing 

 the sporidia. 



Astomous. Mouthless. 



Basal. At or pertaining to the base. 



Beaked. Ending in a prolonged tip or beak. 



Bifid- Two-cleft. 



Bilocular. Two-celled. 



Biogenous. Growing on living organisms. 



Biseriate. In two rows or series. 



Canescent. Gray or hoary. 



Capitate. Collected in a head or furnished 

 with a head. 



Capsule. A dry, dehiscent fruit composed of 

 more than one carpel. 



Carinate. Furnished with a keel or project- 

 ing, longitudinal line. 



Cartilaginous. Firm and tough; like a car- 

 tilage. 



Caudate. Having a slender, tail-like ap- 

 pendage. 



Cespitose. Growing in tufts. 



Chartaceous. L,ike paper. 



Cinereous. Ash-colored. 



Circinate. Lying in a circle. 



Circumscissile. Splitting around horizon- 

 tally. 



Clavate. Club-shaped. 



Cirrhus, pi. Cirrhi. Tendrils; elongated, 

 tendril-like collections of exuded spores. 



Colliculose. Covered- with small, rounded 

 prominences. 



Concrescent. Growing together. 



Conglobate. Collected in a subspherical mass. 



Continuous. Not divided by septa. 



Crustaceous. Of hard and brittle texture. 



Cuneate. Wedge-shaped. 



Cymbiform. Boat-shaped. 



Deciduous. Not persistent; falling off. 



Dendroid. Shaped like a tree. 



Dichotomous. Dividing regularly by pairs. 



Didymous. Double; of two equal parts. 



Digitate. Furnished with fingers; dividing 

 like the fingers of a hand. 



Dimidiate. Halved. In a dimidiate perithe- 



cium the lower half is wanting. 

 Distichous. In two rows or layers. 

 Echinate. Beset with prickles. 

 Epiphyllous. Growing on the upper side of a 



leaf. 

 Epithecium. The layer sometimes formed 



above the asci by the concrescent tips 



of the paraphyses. 

 Erumpent. Bursting out. 

 Exserted. Projecting; standing out. 

 Falcate. Scythe-shaped. 

 j Farinose. Covered with a meal-like powder. 

 Fastigiate. with branches erect and close 



together. 

 Fascicle. A small bundle. 

 Ferruginous. Rust-colored. 

 Filiform. Thread-like. 

 Fimbriate. Fringed. 

 Flexuous. Bending alternately in opposite 



directions. 

 j Forked. Divided into two equal parts. 



Friable. Easily crumbling. 

 I Fugacious. Disappearing very early. 

 Fuliginous. The color of soot. 

 Glabrous. Smooth; not rough, pubescent, or 



hairy. 

 Gregarious. Growing in groups. 

 Guttulate. Containing nuclei resembling 



small drops of water or oil. 

 Hirsute. Clothed with rather coarse, stiff 



hairs. 

 Hispid. Clothed with rigid hairs or bristles. 

 Hyaline. Transparent like glass. 

 Hypophyllous. Growing on the under side of 



a leaf. 

 Innate. Grown into. 

 Inordinate. Not in regular order. 

 Lacerate. Irregularly torn. 

 Laciniate. Cut into narrow, pointed lobes. 

 Lenticular. L,ens-shaped. 

 Linear. Long and narrow with sides parallel. 

 Membranaceous. Thin and soft and more or 



less transparent. 

 Moniliform. I v ike a string of beads. 

 Muricate. Rough with short, hard points. 

 Muriculate. Finely muricate. 

 Obconical. Inversely conical. 

 Oblique. Unequal-sided or slanting. 

 Obovate. Inverted ovate. 

 Obsolete. Not evident; rudimentary. 

 Opake. Dull; not smooth or shining. 

 Operculate. Furnished with a lid. 

 Osliolum. A little mouth; the opening in the 



apex of the perithecium. 

 Ovate. Egg-shaped. 



Papillose. Having minute, . rounded pro- 

 jections. 



