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THE POLYPORACEAE OF WISCONSIN. 



GLOSSARY. 



Adnate gills attached squarely to 



stem. 



Adpressed growing close to. 

 Alutaceous grayish yellow. 

 Alveolate honeycombed. 

 Annulate with a ring or annulus. 

 Apiculate with a short pointed tip. 

 Appendiculate appendaged. 

 Applanate flattened. 

 Appressed lying close to. 

 Arcuate bow-shape. 

 Areolate marked by spaces. 

 Attenuate tapering to a point. 

 Auriculate eared. 

 Avellaneous drab. 



Basidium (pi. basidia) club shaped 



body which bears the spores. 

 Bullose blistered. 

 Byssoid cottony. 



ambium a layer of formative tissue. 



Canescent covered with hoary pub- 

 escence. 



Carpophore stalk of sporocarp. 



Cespitose growing in tufts. 



Cinereous ashy. 



Conchiform shell shaped. 



Concolorous of uniform color. 



Concrescent growing together. 



Confluent blended or running to- 

 gether. 



Connate joined. 



Coriaceous leathery. 



Cornecus horny. 



Cristate crested. 



Crustaceous hard and brittle. 



Cuticulate having a cuticle. 



Cystidia large single cells among 

 basidia. 



Daedalioid labyrinthine. 

 Deciduous not persistent. 

 Decurrent running down the stem. 

 Dentate toothed. 

 Denticulate with little teeth. 

 Determinate ending definitely. 

 Dimidiate sessile pileus semicircular 



in form. 

 Dissepiment a partition. 



Echinulate beset with short bristles. 

 Effused spread over. 

 Emarginate notched at the end. 

 Evanescent vanishing. 

 Explanate flattened. 



Favoloid like a honeycomb. 

 Ferruginous rust colored. 

 Fibrillose covered with minute fibers. 

 Fimbriate In the form of delicate 



fringe. 



Flabelliform fan shaped. 

 Flaccid soft and limber. 

 Flavescent yellowish. 

 Flexuous wavy, winding. 

 Floccose covered with cottony threads. 

 Flocculose minutely floccose. 

 Friable easily broken. 

 Frondose leafy. 

 Fuliginous dark smoke color. 

 Fulvous tawny, reddish yellow. 

 Furfuraceous scurfy, scaly. 

 Fuscous grayish brown. 

 Fusiform spindle shaped. 

 Fusoid like a spindle. 



Gibbous with a one-sided hump. 

 Gills lamellae or hymenial plates. 

 Glabrate somewhat smooth. 

 Glabrous smooth, without pubescence. 

 Glandules sticky dots. 

 Glaucous with a whitish bloom. 

 Gluten glue. 

 Gyrose circular folds. 



Helicoid spiral. 



Hirsute stiff hairy. 



Hispid bristly with strong hairs. 



Hyaline clear, transparent. 



Hygrophanous with a watery appear- 

 ance. 



Hymenium fruiting surface. 



Hymenophore the hymenium bearing 

 portion. 



Hypha a single mycelium thread. 



Imbricate overlapping like shingles. 

 Immarginate without a margin. 

 Incarnate pink. 

 Indurated hardened. 

 Infundibuliform funnel shaped. 

 Innate borne at the apex. 

 Isabelline dirty, tawny color. 



Labyrinthine with winding passages. 

 Laccate milky. 

 Lacerate torn. 



Lacunose with holes. 



Lamellae gills of mushroom. 

 Lenzitoid like Lenzites. 

 Lignatile woody. 

 Lignicolous on wood. 



