MYCOLOGICAL GLOSSARY 



Epit'Iiyl'Ius: growing on the upper side of the leaf. 



Ep'ispore: the inner coat or wall of a spore. 



Epithe'ciiim: the layer sometimes formed on a hymenium by the union 

 of the tips of paraphyses above the asci. 



Epix'ylous: growing on wood. 



Eniiii' pent : breal:ing through the epidermis or through the surface of 

 the matrix. 



Exccn'tric: out of the center; as stem not attached to center of pileus. 



Excip'ulum: outer layer of an Apothccinm. 



Exoperid'iuin: outer layer of the peridium. 



Ex' OS pore: the outer coat or wall of a spore. 



Ex'planale: flattened, expanded. 



Exser'ted: projecting; standing out. 



Exsicca'ti: dried specimens; sets of specimens. 



Facultotivc-pc.vasitc: a fungus normally saprophytic but which may live 

 for a time or a part of its life cycle as a parasite. 



Facidtative-saprophytc: a fungus normally parasitic but which may live 

 for a time or a part of its life cycle as a saprophyte. 



Falcate: hooked or curved like a scythe. 



Farina' ccous: mealy. 



Far'inosc: coveret'. v.ith a white mealy powder. 



Fcrrii'ginotis: rust-red. 



FiUforin : thread-like. 



Fim'briate: fringed. 



Fis'tul >sc: with stem hollow, or becoming hollow. 



Flah'cUate: fan-shaped. 



Flabcl'lifcnii : fan-shaped. 



Flac'cid: soft and flabby. 



Flaves'ccnt: turning yellow or yellowish. 



Floe' cose: woolly, with woolly locks or flocci. 



Floc'cvAose: minutely fluccosc. 



Fo'veate: with pits on depressions. 



Fove'olate: with small pits. 



Free: said of gills not attached to the stem. 



Fri'ahle: easily crumbling. 



Fuga'crovs: falling or fading early, disappearing. 



FuUgin'cGUS, fulig'inotis: sooty-brown or dark smoke coior. 



Ful'z'ous: tawny, yellowish-brown tint. 



Fuyi'gtis (pi. fungi) : mushrooms and other "low" plants that are of simple 

 structure, destitute of chlorophyll and consequently must live as para- 

 sites or sapropb.ytes. 



Furfura' ccous: with brown scales. 



Fus'coiis: dingy, brownish, or brown tinged with gray. 



Fu'siform : spindle-shaped. 



Fiisoid: like a spindle; fusiform. 



Gasteromyce'tes: those Basidioinycetcs in which the hymenium is enclosed 

 in a sack-like envelope, as the Puffballs. 



Ge'nus: a group of closely related species. 



Gib'bous: swollen at one point. 



Gills: the lamellae or plates in an Agaric on which the basidiospores are 

 borne. 



Glab'roiis: smooth, devoid of pubescence or hairiness. 



GJau'cous: with a whitish waxy bloom. 



Gle'ba: in Gasteromycetes the spore-bearing cavernous tissue, as the Puff- 

 balls and Phalloids. 



Gonid'inm: same as Conidium, but formerly used only for the green bodies 

 (algae) in the tissue of Lichens. 



Grega'rious: said of Mushrooms not solitary, but many in a locality grow- 

 ing together, yet not caespitose. 



Gut'ta (pi. gultac) : drops or included oil-globules. 



Gut'laic: with tear-like drops or guttae. 



Gnt'tida (pi. gnttulac) : small drops or minute included oil-globules. 



Gut'tulate: with guttulae. 



