GLOSSARY 503 



Scrobiculate (scrolls, a trench), marked with small pits. 



Separating, becoming detached, as gills from a stem, or resupinate fungi from 



the matrix. 

 Septate, divided. 



Septum (septum, a hedge), a division. 

 Serrate (serra, a saw), toothed like a saw. 

 Serrulate, minutely toothed. 

 Sessile (sedeo, to sit), seated without a stem. 

 Setae (seta, a bristle), bristles. 

 Setulose, resembling a fine bristle. 

 Simple, applied to a stem without ring or volva. 

 Sinuate, waved ; of a pileus with a wavy or curved margin ; of gills with a 



sudden wave, curve or sinus where they reach the stem. 

 Sinus (sinus), a curve. 



Smooth, applied to a surface which is destitute of hairs or other protuberances. 

 Spathulate (Gr. spathe, a spatula), spoon-like. 

 Spawn, see Mycelium. 



Sphaeriae, small spherical black fungi common on branches. 

 Spiculs (spiculum, a small needle), fine erect acutely pointed spines. 

 Spinulose (spina, a thorn), bearing fine spines. 



Sporangium (Gr. spora, a seed, aggeion, a vessel), a spore-bearing receptacle. 

 Spores (Gr. spora, a seed), the analogues of seeds of flowering plants. 

 Sporidia, diminutive of spores small spores. 

 Sporophore (Gr. spora, a seed, phoreo, to carry), the part which bears the 



hymenial surface. 



Squamose (squama, a scale), scaly. 

 Squamule, a small scale. 

 Squamulose, covered with small scales. 

 Squarrose (squarrosus, rough, scurfy), rough with scales. 

 Sterigma (Gr. sterigma, a prop), pi. sterigmata, the slender thread which carries 



a spore. 



Stipes (stipes), a stalk. 

 Stipitate, stemmed. 



Stoloniferous (stole, a short sucker or runner, fero, to bear), stolon-bearing. 

 Stoma (Gr. stoma, a mouth), the mouth through which the spores escape in 



certain fungi, as Geaster, Tidostoma, etc. 

 Striate (stria, a furrow, flute of a column), marked with lines in the form of 



channels. 



Strigae (striga, a swathe), small straight hair-like scales. 

 Strigose, rough with sharp-pointed hairs, hispid. 

 Stroma (Gr. stroma, a mattress), a cushion-like body in which the perithecia of 



some fungi are immersed. 



Stuffed, of a stem filled with substance of a different texture from its walls. 

 Subiculum (subictdum, an under layer), the felted or byssoid mycelium of a 



resupinate fungus, forming the under layer bearing the hymenium. 

 Sulcate (snlcus, a furrow), marked with grooves. 

 Superior (super, above), applied to the annulus when it is near the apex of 



the stem. 



Terete (teres, rounded), circular in transverse section. 

 Tessellate (tessellatus, squared stones), checquered. 



