THE POLYPORACEAE OF WISCONSIN. 



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Lignin substance impregnating wall 



of wood cells. 

 Lignose woody. 

 Lurid dingy brown. 



Marginate with a margin. 

 Mucedineus cottony. 

 Multiplex many of the same. 

 Mycelium vegetative portion of fun- 

 gus. 



Nodose with joints. 

 Nodular knobby. 



Obsolete lacking. 



Ochraceous yellow with a tinge of 



red. 



Orbicular round. 

 Osseous like bone. 



Pallescent turning pale. 



Pallid pale. 



Papillae nipple shaped projections. 



Papyraceous papery. 



Pellucid clear. 



Peronate rough. 



Pileoli small pilei. 



Pileus cap. 



Pilose hairy. 



Plicate folded. 



Polycephalous with many heads. 



Polyporoid like a polypore. 



Porose with pores. 



Porus a pore. 



Pruinate somewhat powdery. 



Pruinose powdery. 



Pubescence hairs. 



Pulverulent minutely powdered. 



Pulvinate cushioned. 



Punctate dotted. 



Punctiform dot-like. 



Putrescent decaying. 



Pyriform pear form. 



Radicate somewhat rooted. 



Reniform kidney-shaped. 



Resupinate spread over the substra- 

 tum. 



Rhizomorph root-like branch of my- 

 celia. 



Rimose cracked. 



Rivulose channeled. 



Rufescent becoming reddish. 



Rugose wrinkled. 



Rugulose minutely wrinkled. 



Saprophyte growing on dead organic 

 matter. 



Scabrous rough to the touch. 



Scrupose rough, jagged. 



Scurfy with small scales. 



Scutate shield-shape. 



Scutellate like a small shield. 



Seriate in a series. 



Sericeous silky. 



Sessile stemless. 



Setulose with bristles. 



Sinuous deeply waved. 



Sordid dirty. 



Spadiceous brownish. 



Spatulate oblong, lower end smaller. 



Spinules little spines. 



Sporophore spore bearing portion. 



Squamose cc a'y. 



Squamulose with minute scales. 



Squarrose with prominent reflexed 



scales. 



Stipe stalk. 

 Stipitate stalked. 

 Stratose in layers. 

 Strigose covered with stiff hairs. 



Sub. more or less. 



Suberose corky. 



Subiculum a cottony mycelium. 



Sulcate furrowed. 



Tomentum dense hair or wool. 

 Tracheid vasiform wood cell. 

 Trama hyphae at base of hymenium. 

 Tametoid like Trametes. 

 Tremelline jelly-like. 

 Triquetrous with three angles. 

 Tuberculose roughened. 

 Tumid swollen. 



Umbilicate depressed in the center. 

 Umbonate bearing a protuberance. 

 Umbrinous brownish. 

 Undulate wavy. 

 Ungulate clawed. 



Unguliform like a claw. 

 Velutinous velvety. 

 Vesicular composed of vessels. 

 Villose somewhat woolly. 

 Villous with long soft hairs. 

 Virgate wand shaped. 

 Viscid glutinous, sticky. 

 Viscous clammy. 

 Vitelline yellowish. 

 Volva an envelope which completely 

 surrounds young plants. 



Zonate with concentric bands. 



