Glossary 



AURIC'ULATE, AURIFORM (auriculatus, <^auricula, the external ear), ear-shaped. 



AUTO-BASID'IUM (actus, an act, dim. of Gr. a base, + basidium), an unseptated ba- 

 sidium giving rise at the apex to four slender sterigmata (sometimes fewer, some- 

 times more), each bearing a spore. 



AUTONOMOUS (Gr. independent; of one's own freewill; Gr. self, + Gr. hold 

 sway), said of plants that are perfect and complete in themselves; not forming 

 part of a cycle ; independent. 



Ax'is (axle, axis, pole of the earth), the central line of growth; stipe, stalk, etc. 



AZO'NATE (Gr. without, + L. zona, a zone), without zones or circular bands of 

 different color. 



BA'DJOUS (badius, bay), bay; reddish-brown; chestnut color. 



BAND, a broad bar of color. 



BANDED, marked with bands. 



BARBED (barba, beard), furnished with barbs, fibrils or hairs. 



BASE (bassus, low, short, thick), the extremity opposite to the apex ; the part of an 

 organ nearest its point of attachment ; applied to lamellae ; (a) the line of at- 

 tachment to the pileus (as connected by veins at the base) ; (b) sometimes used 

 to define the end attached to the stipe (broad or reticulate at the base). 



BASID'IOGENET'IC (Gr. a base + genesis), produced upon a basidium. 



BASID'IOMYCE'TES (basidium + Gr. a mushroom), group of fungi which has its 

 spores produced upon basidia. 



BASID'IOPHORE (basidium + Gr. to bear), a sporophore bearing basidia. 



BASID'IOSPORE (basidium -f- Gr. spora, spore; seed), spore acrogenously abjointed 

 upon a basidium. 



BASIDIUM (pi. BASID'IA), mother cells in the hymenium of basidiomycetes formed 

 on the end of a hyphal branch and abstricting spores ; the spores are generally 

 four in number, each on a sterigma, but sometimes more, sometimes fewer, and 

 sometimes sessile. See AUTO-BASIDIUM and PROTO-BASIDIUM. 



BASIP'ETAL (basis, a base, + petere, seek, + a l)> i n the direction of the base. 



BAY (badius), a very rich dark-reddish chestnut; badious. 



BI-, prefix, meaning twice. 



BIBULOUS (bibulus, <^bibere, drink), having the quality of absorbing or imbibing 

 moisture. 



BICIP'ETAL, BICIP / ITOUS (biceps (bicipit-), two-headed, + al), in botany divided into 

 two parts at the top or bottom. 



BI'FID (bifidus, forked, <6i, two, + findere, cleave, divide), cleft or divided into two 

 parts. 



BIFUR'CATED (bifurcus, two-forked), divided into two forks or branches as in the 

 gills of certain Agarics. 



BILOC'ULAR (bi, two, -f loculus, a cell, <Zocr<s, a place), two-celled. 



BIOG'ENOUS (bi, two, -f genus, <^gena, born), growing on living organisms. 



BISE'RIATE, BISE'RIAL (bi, two, + seriate), arranged in two rows. 



BIS'TRE (fuligineus), a dark brown color somewhat more reddish thaa sepia, but 

 much less so than burnt umber. 



BOOT'ED, applied to the stem of a mushroom when enclosed in a sheath or voiva; 

 peronate. 



Boss, a knob or short rounded protuberance ; umbo. 



BOSSED, BULI/ATE (bulla, a bubble), furnished with a boss, stud or umtoo. 



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