GLOSSARY 



commonly understood to mean the color of iron- 

 rust. 

 Olivaceous, a greenish-brown color like that of olives. 

 Pallid, pale, deficient in color. 

 Papilionaceous, resembling the butterfly; mottled, as the 



gills of some species of Panasolus that are mottled with 



black spots. 

 Parasite, a plant growing on or in another living body from 



which it derives nourishment. 

 Partial, said of a veil that surroimds the stem of a mushroom 



and extends to the edge of the cap. 

 Peronate, said of the stem of a mushroom when it has a 



boot-like or stocking-like covering. 

 Personate, masked or disguised. 

 Pileus, cap; the head of a mushroom. 

 PorphyrcsporaB, a group of mushrooms that have purple or 



purplish-brown spores. 

 Pruinate, covered with a frost-like bloom. 

 Radiate, Radiating, arranged like the spokes of a wheel. 

 Resupinate, said of a mushroom that is attached to the wood 



on which it grows by its back and without a stem. 

 Revolute, turned upwards or backwards; the opposite of 



involute. 

 Rhodosporae, a group of mushrooms that have pink or rosy 



spores. 

 Rimose, cracked. 

 Ring, a part of the partial veil adhering to the stem of a 



mushroom like a collar; annulus. 

 Rubescent, blushing; reddish. 

 Rufus, a brownish-red color. 

 Sapid, savory; agreeable to the taste. 

 Separable, capable of being detached. 

 Sessile, seated; attached by the base and without^ a 



stem. 



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