GLOSSARY 357 



Coriaceous (Lat. coriutn, leather), leathery. 



Corneous (Lat. cornu, a horn), horny. 



CoRNicuLATE, CoRNUTE, horn-shapcd. 



Coronate (Lat. corona, a crown), formed like a crown. 



Corrugate (Lat.), wrinkled, rough with wrinkles. 



Cortex (Lat., hark or rind), the outer layer of the thallus — Cortical, 



Corticate. 

 CoRTicoLOUS (Lat. cortex, the bark, colo, to inhabit), living on the bark 



of trees. 

 Corymbose (Gr. korumbos, a cluster of fruit or flowers), arranged in 



clusters. 

 Costate (Lat. costa, a rib), ribbed. 

 Crenate, Crenulate (Lat. crena, a notch), scalloped or with rouudod 



notches on the margin. 

 Crispate (Lat. crispus, curled), curled and twisted. 

 Cristate (Lat. crista, a crest or terminal tuft), crested. 

 Crustaceous {Ltat. crusta, rind or shell), hard, thin, brittle; applied to 



a closely adhericg thallus without cortical layers. 

 CucuiiLATE (Lat. cucullus, a hood), hooded or hood-shaped. 

 CuruLAR (Lat. cupula, a little cup), cup-shaped — Cupule. 

 Cyathoid (Gr. kuathos, a wine cup, eidos, like), cup-shaped. 

 Cylindrical (Gr. kulindros, a cylinder), elongate and circular in cross- 

 section. 

 Cyphella (Gr. kiiphella, the hollows of the ears), a minute cup-like 



hollow on the under-surface of the thallus of »S^ic^ei— Cyphellate. 



Dactyline, Dactyloid (Gr. dactylos, a finger), spreading like fingers. 

 Decolorate (Lat.), colourless. 



Decumbent (Lat., reclining), reclining, but ascending at the apex. 

 Decussate (Lat, decusso, to divide crosswise), of the thallus divided and 



crossed by dark lines. 

 Dehiscent (Lat. dehisco, to split open), ruptured or split open. 

 Dendritic, Dendroid (Gr. dendron, a tree), having a branched 



appearance. 

 Denigrate (Lat.), blackened. 



Dentatjl (Lat. dens, a tooth), toothed at the margin. 

 Denudate (Lat.), stripped, made bare or naked. 

 Depauperate (Lat.), impoverished as if starved. 

 Deplanate (Lat.), flattened or expanded. 

 Determinate (Lat., bounded), with a definite outline. 

 DiCHOTOMOus (Gr. dicJiotomeo, to cut in two), forked. 

 DiFFORM (Lat. dis, apart, forma, shape), of unusual form. 

 Diffract (Lat., broken), broken into areolae. 

 DiLACERATE (Lat.), torn asunder. 

 Dimidiate (Lat. dimidiates, halved), applied to the perithecial wall when 



it covers only the upper half of the perithecium. 

 DicECious (Gr. dis, two, oikos, a house), having the male and female 



organs on different individuals. 

 DiRiNEAN, similar to the genus Dirina. 

 Discoid (Gr. diskos, a quoit, cidos, like), disc-like. 

 DiscoLOROUS, of a different colour. 

 Discrete (Lat. discretus), separate and distinct. 

 Dissected (Lat. dissectus, cut up), deeply divided. 

 Distichous (Gr. distichos, of two rows), disposed in two rows. 

 Divaricate (Lat., spread asunder), spreading in opposite directions. 



E, Latin prefix, usually signifying without, as epruinose, esquamulose, 



efoliolose. 

 Effigurate (Lat. c, out of, fiyura, a figure), having a distinct form or 



figure. 

 Effuse (Lat. effusiis, poured out), spread out in an indeterminate way. 



