GLOSSARY 499 



Emarginate (e, out of, margo, the margin), of gills with a sudden curve as if 



scooped out at the point of attachment to the stem. 

 Endoperidium (Gr. endon, within), the inner layer of the peridium. 

 Endophyte, Entophyte (Gr. entos, within, phuton, a plant), growing within 



another plant. 



Epiphyte (Gr. epi, upon, phuton, a plant), growing upon another plant. 

 Erumpent (erurnpens, breaking through), bursting through the epidermis. 

 Evanescent (evanescent, disappearing), lasting only a short time. 

 Excipulus (excipula, a basin), the rim round the base of the apothecium. 

 Exoperidium (Gr. exo, without), the outer layer of the peridium. 



Farinose (farina, meal), mealy. 



Fasciate (fascia, a band or girth), zoned as with coloured bands. 



Fasciculate (fastis, a bundle), growing in small bundles. 



Fastigiate (fastigium, a slope or gable), with branches parallel, clustered and 



erect, sometimes decreasing in height outwards and giving a gable shape. 

 Ferruginous (ferrum, iron), of the colour of iron-rust. 

 Fibrillose (fibra, a fibre), clothed with small fibres. 

 Filiform (filum, a thread), thread-like. 

 Fimbriate (fimbria, a fringe), fringed. 

 Fissile (fissilis, tending to split), capable of being split. 

 Fistulose (fistula, a pipe), hollow like a pipe. 

 Flocci (floccits, a lock of wool), woolly locks. 

 Floccose, woolly. 

 Flocculent, diminutive of floccose. 

 Flocculose, covered with small flocci. 



Free, of gills which reach the stem, but are not attached to it. 

 Fuliginous (fuligineus, sooty), soot-coloured. 

 Funiculus (fnnis, a rope), a cord of hyphae in Nidularia which attaches the 



peridiolum to the inner surface of the wall of the peridium. 

 Furcate (furcatus, forked), as in the branching gills common in Russnla. 

 Furfuraceous (furfur, bran), with branny scales or scurf. 

 Fuscous (fuscus, dusky), of a dingy brownish colour. 



Fusiform (fusus, a spindle), somewhat thick but tapering towards each end. 

 Fusoid, somewhat spindle-shaped. 



Gibbous (gibbus, hump-backed), of a pileus with a swelling or broad umbo, or 



convex above and flat beneath. 



Gills, the plates of an agaric on which the hymenium is situated. 

 Glabrous (glaber, without hair), not bearing hairs. 

 Glaucous (Gr. glatikos, bluish-grey), covered with a bluish-grey bloom. 

 Gleba (gleba, a clod), the contents of the peridium in the Gasteromycetes. 

 Greaved, of a stem clothed as if with a greave. 

 Gregarious (gregaritts, belonging to a flock), growing in company, but not 



caespitose. 

 Grumous (grumus, a little heap), clotted ; of flesh composed of little clustered 



grains. 



Guttate (gutta, a tear), with tear-like spots. 

 Gyrose (Gr. guros, round), curved backward and forward in turn. 



Habit (habitus, appearance), the general appearance. 

 Habitat (habitatio, dwelling), the locality. 



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