498 GLOSSARY 



Cerebriform (cerebrum, the brain), having an irregular brain-like appearance, 



like the kernel of a walnut. 

 Ciliate (cilium, an eye-lash), fringed with hairs. 

 Cinereous (cinis, ashes), ash-coloured. 



Cingulate (cingulum, a girdle), bearing a ring or annulus on the stem. 

 Clavate (clava, a club), club-shaped. 

 Columella (cohtmella, a small pillar), the small columnar base of barren tissue in 



Lycoperden, G easier, etc. 

 Conceptacle (conceptactilum, a receptacle), a hollow case enclosing reproductive 



bodies. 



Conchiform (concha, a shell), shell-shaped. 

 Concrete (concretus, growing together), as when the scales adhere to the flesh of 



the pileus. 



Conidia (Or. konis, dust), simple asexual spores. 



Connate (con, together, nascor, to be born), united by growing together. 

 Connivent (conniveo, to wink), arching over to meet. 

 Coriaceous (cerium, leather), leathery. 

 Cortex (bark or rind), the periderm in the Gasteromycetes. 

 Corticate, with a bark-like covering. 



Cortina (cortina, a veil), a veil of spider-web structure as the veil in Cortinarius. 

 Cortinate, furnished with a veil. 

 Costate (costat^ls, ribbed), ribbed or veined. 

 Crenate (crena, a notch), with rounded notches on the margin. 

 Crenulate, with small rounded notches. 

 Cribrose (cribrum, a sieve), pierced with many holes. 

 Cupulate (cuptila, a little cup), cup-shaped. 

 Cuspidate (cuspis, a point, spear), with a sharp spear-like point. 

 Cuticle (cuticula, the outer skin), the outermost skin. 

 Cyathiform (Gr. kuathos, a wine-cup), cup-shaped. 



Decumbent (decumbo, to recline), reclining but with summit ascending. 

 Decurrent (decurro, to run down), of gills and tubes running down the stem in 



the Agaricacece, Polyporacece, etc. 

 Dehiscing (dehisce, to yawn), opening when ripe. 



Deliquescent (deliquescent^ melting away), becoming fluid when mature. 

 Denticulate (denticulatus, minutely toothed), as in the minute teeth on the edge 



of the gills in certain Agaricacecz. 

 Depressed (depressus, sunk down), slightly hollowed. 

 Determinate (determine, to limit), ending definitely, as in the margin of some 



species of Corticium, etc., not powdered or clouded off indefinitely. 

 Diaphanous (Gr. dia, through, phaino, to appear), more or less transparent. 

 Dichotomous (Gr. dichotomco, to cut in two), divided into two, forked. 

 Dimidiate (dimidio, to halve), as when one part of an organ is smaller than the 



other as in the pilei of many fungi. 

 Disciform (discus, a quoit), circular and flat. 

 Dissepiments (dissepimentum, a partition), dividing walls. 

 Distant, of gills in the Agaric acea with a wide distance between them. 

 Divaricate (divarico, to spread asunder), very divergent, separating at an obtuse 



angle. 



Echinulate (echinus, a hedgehog), with short bristles. 



Effused (ejfundo, to pour out), spread over without regular form. 



