GLOSSARY 



Abbaded (Lat. abrado, to rub away), rubbed or scraped off. 



ACERVULATE (Lat. accrvus, a heap), hoaped up — Acervult. 



AcicuLAR (Lat. aais, a needle), slender, needle-shaped. 



Acuminate (Lat. acumen, a point), coming gradually to a point. 



Adnate (Lat. adnascor, to grow to), adhering to anything. 



Adpressed (Lat. ad, to, pjxssus, kept under), lying flat. 



ADsrERSED (Lat. adspersus), scattered. 



^RUGiNOSE (Lat. ceriigo, the rust of brass), blue-green colour of verdigris. 



Affixed, fixed to or upon. 



Agglutinate (Lat. agglutino, to glue on to), glued together. 



Aggregate (Lat. aggregatus, assembled), crowded together but not 



confluent. 

 Alectorioid, like the genus Alectoria. 

 AiiGOiD, similar to algse. 

 Amphithecium (Gr. amplii, around, theke, a case), the thalline margin of 



the apothecium, cf. thalloid exciple. 

 Amylaceous (Gr. amylon, fine flour), starchy. 

 Anaphyses (Gr. ana, wp, phusis, growth), peculiar sterigmatoid filaments 



in the apothecium of Ephebeia. 

 Apiculate (Lat. apex, the end or point), terminating in a small point. 

 Apiculus (Lat., a little point), a sharp, short point. 



Apothecium (Gr. apo, up, theke, a case), an open or disc-shaped fructifi- 

 cation. 

 Appendiculate (Lat.), with small appendages. 

 Appressed, cf. adpressed. 

 Applanate (Lat. ad, to, planatus, made flat), flattened or horizontally 



expanded. 

 Arachnoid (Gr. arachne, a spider), like a spider's web. 

 Arcuate (Lat. arcus, a bow), bent like a bow, curved. 

 Ardell^ts (Gr. ardo, to sprinkle), the small spot-like apothocia of Artho- 



niacecB. 

 Areola (Lat. area, a space), a small space marked out on the surface of 



crustaceous lichens. 

 Arthonioid, applied to apothecia like those of the genus Arthonia. 

 Arthrosterigma (Gr. arthro7i, a joint, sierignia, a prop), septate sterigmata. 

 Articulate (Lat. artictilus, a joint), septate. 

 Ascus (Gr. askos, a wine skin), an enlarged cell in which the spores are 



developed, usually the terminal end of a hypha. 

 Ascyphous (Gr. a, without, skuphos, a cup), without scyphi, q^.v. 

 Aspersed, cf. adspersed. 

 Axil (Lat. axilla, the arm-pit), the angle between the axis and any organ 



arising from it. 

 Axis (Lat., an axle), the central strand of tissue or the main stalk round 



which the organs are developed. 



Bacillar (Lat. bacilhmi, a staff), rod- or club-shaped. 

 Badio-, Badious (Lat.), chestnut-brown. 

 BiEOMYCETOiD, like the genus Ba^omyces. 



BiATORiNE, with soft or waxy apothecia, often brightly coloured, without 

 a thalline margin, as in Biatora. 



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