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made in considerable quantities in Bartow, Floyd, and Polk 

 counties to supply the iron furnaces in the vicinity doubtless 

 comes from this species, but in Haralson and Carroll Counties 

 the only evidence I saw of its being used in any way was a few 

 logs at a small sawmill in Bremen. It is probably not abundant 

 enough in these highlands to make its exploitation profitable at 

 present in competition with the much greater supply in the coastal 

 plain. A great deal of it was doubtless destroyed in clearing 

 the land for agricultural purposes before its timber was as much 



in demand as it is now. 

 College Point, Nkw York. 



TERMS APPLIED TO THE SURFACE AND SUR- 

 FACE APPENDAGES OF FUNGI 



By Willl!.m a. Murrill 

 Glossary of Terms 



Abrupt, terminating suddenly. 



Aculeate, having prickles. 



Aculeolate, having small or few prickles. 



Alveolate, deeply pitted like a honey- 

 comb. 



Anastomosing, forming a net-work. 



Annulate, marked with rings or circular 

 transverse lines. 



Anodcriit, without a crust or skin. 



Appendiculate, decorated with small frag- 

 ments of the veil ; used of the margin. 



Applanate, flattened out horizontally. 



Appressed, lying close. 



Arachnoid, cohweljby ; of slender en- 

 tangled hairs, which are fewer and 

 longer than in to/iientose. Used chiefly 

 of the veil. 



Areolate, marked out into small spaces ; 

 reticulate. 



Asperate, rough with short stiff hairs or 

 points. 



Barbed, bearded, having stiff hairs. 



Jiarbulate, finely bearded. 



Bibulous, absorbing moisture. 



Bifurcate, forked. 



Based, umbonate. 



Bristly, clothed with stifi" short hairs. 



Biillale, blistered or puckered. 



Byssaccous, byssoid. 



Byssoid, filamentous, cobwebby, as in the 

 mycelium . Used chiefly of the margin. 



Callose, having hardened spots or warts. 



Calvous, bald ; destitute of hairs usually 

 present. 



Canaliculate, deeply channeled ; used 

 chiefly of the stem. 



Caucsccnt, gray or whitish from a coaling 

 of fnie hairs. 



Carbonactous, black and brittle like coal 

 or charcoal. 



Carnose, fleshy ; soft, but firm. 



Cartilaginous, firn) and tough like carti- 

 lage. 



Cerareotts, wa.x-like. 



C/iaff)', covered with thin dry scales. 



Channeled, having deep longitudinal fur- 

 rows. 



Chartaceous, with the texture of parch- 

 ment or writing-paper. 



Ciliate, fringed with hairs or bristles. 



