MYCOLOGICAL GLOSSARY 



Bad'ious: bay, chestnut color, or reddish brown. 



Basic! io nice' tes: the group of fungi that have spores borne on a basidium. 



Basid'iosporc: spores borne on a basidium. 



Basid'ium (pi. basidia) : an enlarged cell on which are borne spores. 



Basip'ctal: proceeding toward the base. 



Bay: a rich dark reddish chestnut. 



Biloc'ular: having tv.o cavities. 



Biog'cnous: growing on living plants or animals. 



Booted: said of a mushroom stem v/hen encased in a sheath. 



Boss: an umbo, or short rounded protuberance. 



Byssa'ceous or bysscid: of fmc filaments or byssus. 



Bys'sus: a fine filamentous mass. 



Cacs'pitosc: growing in tufts or clumps. 



Cai:ipan'ulatc: bell shaped. 



Can'ccllate: latticed. 



Cancs'cent: having whitish or hoary pubescence. 



Cap: pileus of mushrooms. 



CapiUi'iium: capillary threads mixed with the spores in case of some 

 species. 



Carbonaceous: rigid, black and brittle. 



Car'inate: with a keel or longitudinal line. 



Car'ncotts: fiesh color. 



Car' nose: flesh color 



Casfan'cus: chestnut color. 



Can' date: having a slender or tail-like appendage. 



CauUc'olous: growing on herbaceous or woody stems. 



Cell: the minute living mass of protoplasm which is the unit of structure 

 in organisms. The vegetable cell has a cell-wall in case of mush- 

 rooms and common plants. 



Cel'liilar: composed of cells. 



Cel'lulose: the chemical substance (a carbohydrate) of which the vege- 

 table cell-wall is composed. 



Cera'ceous: like wax. 



Cere'briform : brain-shaped. 



Ces'pitose: growing in tufts or clumps. 



Chartaceoiis: like paper. 



Chlam'ydospores: resting spores in rows form.ed by the breaking up of a 

 hypha into bead-like cells. 



Cil'ia (plural of cilium) : marginal hairs or hair-like projections. 



Cil'iate: with cilia. 



Cine'reous: light bluish-gray, or ash-gray. 



Circumscis'sile: breaking at or near the middle on equatorial line. 



Clath'ratc: latticed. 



Cla'vate or Cla7''iform: club-shaped, thickened tov^^ard top. 



Cluster-cups: the first stage (Aecidinm) of the Rusts. 



Col' hid: like glue or jelly, not crystalline. 



Columel'la: a stalk extended into or through a spore case 



Comatc, comose, comniis: with a tuft of silky hairs, or hairy. 



Com'planate: flattened to a level surface above and below. 



Concat'enate: linked together in a chain. 



Concep'tacle: a closed spore-receptacle. 



Concol'orous: of a uniform color. 



Concres'cent: growing together. 



Concrete: grown together. 



Confer'void: loose and filamentous, like the alga Conferva. 



Conid'ia: plural of condiiim. 



Conid'ial: pertaining to conidia. 



Couidiif'crous: bearing conidia. 



Conid'iophorc: a hypha bearing conidia. 



Conid'ium: a spore (non-sexual) arising singly or in chains from the ends 

 of a hypha or hyphal branches. 



Con'text: texture, substance. 



Continuous: non-septate, applied to hyphac or spores that have no septa. 



