^[YCOLOGICAL GLOSSARY 



Lcucospor'ae: the group of Agarics that have white spores. 



jLev'igatc: with a polished surface. 



Lig'nutile: growing on wood. 



Ligneous: growing on wood. 



Lig'ulatc: flattened and strap-like. 



Liv'id: bluish-black, color of a flesh bruise. 



Loc'ular: divided into cavities; as trilocular, three cavities. 



Lu'men: cavity; cavity formed by cell wall. 



Lii'rid: color between purple, yellow and gray; dirty brown. 



Lu'tcous: yellowish ; buff-like or clay color. 



Lutes' cent: yellowish; becoming luteous. 



Mae'ulatc: spotted. 



Mam'miform: breast-like; teat-like. 



Marginal veil: in Agarics the veil extending from margin of pileus to stem. 



Matrix: the substance on which or in which a fungus grows. 



Mc'dial: as of an annulus when at the middle of the stem. 



Medulla: inner substance extending to the cortical portion. 



Mclanospo'rae: the black-spored Agarics. 



Mcris'nidid: like Mcrisma, that is, a pileus divided into many small pilci. 



Mcs'opod: a plant having a central stem. 



Mica'ceoiis: covered with glistening scales. 



Mic'ron (pi. micra or microns): the m or one-thousandth of a millimeter; 

 it is nearly .00004 of an inch. 



Mil'Umcter: the thousandth of a meter, and a thousand micra, or ^^■, 

 nearly one twenty-fifth of an inch. 



Min'iate: vivid red or vermillion color. 



Mi'trate, Mitriform: bonnet-shaped, mitre-shaped. 



Mold, mould: may refer to fine organic earth as leaf-mold, or to the com- 

 mon fungi on foods, etc., as Penicillium, Mucor, etc. 



Monil'iform: like a string of beads. 



Morphology: this as contrasted with Physiology (which deals with func- 

 tion) refers to structure of parts, particularly their interpretation as 

 based on their origin and development. 



Muce'dinous: resembling the mildews or moulds. 



Mu'cro: a short abrupt point. 



Mu'cronafe: with a short abrupt point. 



Multipar'tite: divided into many parts. 



Mulfiscp'tate: having many partitions or septa. 



Mu'ricate: covered with short hard points. 



Muric'ulate: finely muricate. 



Mu'riform: descriptive of spores that have septa at right angles to each 

 other, or like bricks in a wall. 



Mu'rine or murinoiis: mouse-colored. 



Mushroom: a word used for all the conspicuous higher fungi; the term 

 is not properly confined to the edible toadstools. 



Myc- (mycet- or myco-) : is a prefix meaning fungus. 



Myce'lium: the mass of hypae or threads (elongated cells) of which the 

 tissue of fungi is composed, especially the visible mat of hj'phae of 

 the moulds, etc. 



Myce'lioid: like mycelium. 



Mycology: the division of botany which treats of fungi. 



Mycologist: one versed in mycology. 



Mycoph' agist: one who eats fungi. 



Ni'tid, nitidous: shining, polished. 



Nif'cous: snow-white. 



Nu'cleus: the central dense and very complex part of the protoplasm. 



Obligate-parasitc: one that can grow only as a parasite; see Facultative- 

 parasite. 



Obligatc-saprophytc : one that can grow only as a saprophyte; see Facul- 

 tative-saprophyte. 



Ochrospor'oe: the Agarics that have ocher-colored or brownish spores. 



Oo' spore: a spore resulting from the act of fecundation, usually a resting- 

 sporc; egg-spore. 



