Glossary 



SPIC'ULE (spicula, a little sharp point), in Hymenomycetes one of the small projec- 

 tions on the basidia which bear the spores. 



SPINDLE (spinula, dim. of spina, a thorn), a small spine or prickle. 



SPORAN / GIOPHORE (sporangium + Gr. bear), special mycelial branch bearing a 

 sporangium. 



SPORANGIUM (pi. SPORANGIA) (spora, a spore, + Gr. vessels), sac producing spores 

 endogenously. 



SPORE (Gr. a sowing, seed time, seed, etc.), the reproductive body of cryptogams 

 analogous to the seed of phenogams; the terms spores, sporidia. sporules and 

 conidia have been applied somewhat indiscriminately to all spore bodies. 



SPORIDIF'ERA, a class of fungi in which the spores are enclosed in asci. 



SPORIDIF'EROUSS SPORIDIIF'EROUS (sporidium, -f ferre, bear), bearing sporidia; ap- 

 plied to a fungus of the class Sporidifera. 



SPORID'IUM (pi. SPORIDIA) (dim. of Gr. spore), an ascospore or endospore. See 

 SPORE. 



SPORIF'ERA, a class of fungi in which the spores are free, naked or soon exposed. 



SPORIF'EROUS (spora, spore -\-ferre, bear), bearing spores; applied to a fungus of 

 the class Sporifera. 



SPO'ROCARP (spora, spore, + Gr. fruit), in Ascomycetes the entire fruit, composed 

 of the ascophore and the asci. 



SPOROG'ENOUS (spora, spore, -f- Gr. producing), producing spores. 



SPO'ROPHORE (spora, spore), branch or portion of thallus which bears spores or 

 spore-mother-cells; said to be simple or filamentous when consisting of a single 

 hypha or branch of ahypha; compound, when formed by the cohesion of the 

 ramifications of separate hyphal branches (the common mushroom is a compound 

 sporophore.) 



SPORT, an animal or plant, or any part of one that varies suddenly or singularly 

 from the normal type of structure, and is usually of transient character or not 

 perpetuated; not so much deformed as "monster." 



SPO'RULE, see under SPORE. 



SQUA'MA (pi. SQUA'M^E) (squama, a scale), a scale or scale-like appendage. 



SQUA'MOSE, SQUA'MOUS (squamosiis, <^squama, a scale), covered with appressed 

 scales; scale-like. 



SQUAM'ULA, SQUAM'ULE (dim. of squama, a scale), a small squama. 



SQUAM'ULOSE (squamulosus, <^squamula, dim. of squama, a scale), covered with 

 small scales. 



SQUAR / ROSE (squarrosus, scaly), rough with scales ; roughened with projecting points. 



STALK, stipe; any stem-like supporting organ. 



STEI/LATE (stellatus,pp. of stellare, set or cover with stars, <^stella, star), star-shaped. 



STERIG'MA (pi. STERIGMATA) (Gr. a prop, support), stalk-like branch of a basidium 

 bearing a spore. 



STER'ILE, not fertile; producing no spores. 



STIPE (L. a stock, trunk, post, etc.), stalk of a mushroom. 



STIP'ITATE (stipitatus, <^stipes, a stalk), stemmed, elevated on a stipe. 



STO'MA (pi. STO'MATA) (Gr. the mouth, opening, entrance, out-let, etc.), a mouth 

 or aperture; little orifices in the epidermis of leaves, etc., opening into air cav- 

 ities or intercellular spaces. 



STRAIGHT, applied to margin of pileus when not involute. 



STRAMIN'EOUS (stramineus, made of straw, <istramen, straw), straw-colored. 



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