GLOSSARY OF TERMS 385 



Pulvinate, in the form of a cushion, decidedly convex. 

 Punctate, dotted as if by punctures, like pin pricks. 

 Punctiform, in the form of a dot or point. 

 Pyriform, pear-shaped. 



Radiate, spreading from centre, with irregular rays or lobes. 



Raised, growth thick, with abrupt terraced edges. 



Repand, like the border of an open umbrella. 



Resinous, transparent and brown, varnish or resin-colored. 



Reticulate, in the form of a network, as the veins of a leaf. 



Rhizoid, of an irregular branched, root-like character. Fig. 10, C. 



Rimose, abounding in chinks, clefts, or cracks. 



Rivulose, marked with lines like the rivers of a map. 



Rosulate, shaped like a rosette, more regular than radiate. 



Rudimentary, but slightly developed. 



Rugose, irregularly wrinkled. 



Saccate, shaped like an elongated sack, tubular, cylindrical. Fig. 9, 3. 



Saprophytic, living upon dead organic matter. 



Sebaceous, translucent, yellowish or grayish white. 



Sinuate, with a wavy outline. 



Sinuous, flexuose, curving back and forth. 



Solitary, not closely associated with others. 



Sporogenous, producing spores. 



Squamose. scaly, covered with scales. 



Squamulose, diminutive of squamose. 



Stratiform, a layer, with upper and lower sides parallel. 



Tetrad, a group of four cells. 



Toruloid, budding like the yeast plant. 



Torulose, swollen at intervals. 



Trophotrophism, variations produced in the organism through the influence of 



the chemical nature of the medium. 

 Truncate, terminating abruptly as if cut off at the end, flattened. 



Umbilicate, having an umbilicus or central depression. 

 Umbonate, having a central projecting elevation. 

 Umbonulate, diminutive of umbonate. 

 Uncinate, hooked or abruptly curved at the end. 



Vernicose, with a varnish-like lustre. 

 Verrucose, wart-like, or bearing wart-like prominences. 

 Verruculose, slightly verrucose. 



Versicolor, changeable in color or appearance of different colors from different 

 points of view. 



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