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Circinale^ arranged in a circle. 



Cirrhose, tipped with a wavy thread-like 

 appendage. 



Clot/irate, latticed. 



Colliiiilose, covered with iiillock-like ele- 

 vations. 



Contuse, bearing a tuft of hairs. 



Conipresscd, llattencd laterally ; used 

 chiedy of the stem. 



Concave, incurved. 



Concenlric, having a common center. 



Confervoid, consisting of loose filaments. 



Confluent, running together, blended into 

 one. 



Conlortcd, twisted, crooked. 



Con7i'r, arched. 



Coriaceous, of a leathery texture. 



Corky, firm and elastic like cork. 



Corneous, of a horny texture. 



Corrugaled, irregularly crumpled in folds 

 or wrinkles. 



Cortex, the rind or bark ; a substantial 

 outer layer. 



Corticate, having a rind or cortex. 



Costate, having one or more prominent 

 ribs or veins. 



Crenate, furnished with rounded teeth. 



Crenulate, minutely crenate. 



Cribrate, cribrose. 



Cribroie, porose, perforated. 



Cruslaceous, forming a closely adhering 

 crust or layer. 



Dealbate, covered with a very white 

 bloom or powder, as though white- 

 washed. 



Dentate, bearing broad sharp teeth point- 

 ing directly outward. 



Denticulate, minutely dentate. 



Depressed, somewhat sunken at the 

 center. 



Determinate, having a distinct outline ; 

 used of the margin. 



Diaphanous, nearly or cjuite transparent. 



Diffuse, spreading widely, loosely or 

 irregularly ; used chiefly of the mar- 

 gin. 



Disc, the central portion of the surface of 

 the pileus. 



Downy, having a dense covering of short 



weak hairs. 

 Dissected, cut deeply into many divisions. 

 lichinate, furnished with stiff bristles. 

 Echinulate, minutely spinose ; used 



chiefly of the surface of spores. 

 Effuse, loosely spreading. 

 Effused, efTuse. 

 Elastic, returning \o its original position 



when pressed or bent. 

 Encrusted, covered with a hard skin or 



crust. 

 Entire, destitute of teeth or notches. 

 Erose, having the edge ragged as though 



torn or bitten. 

 Eroded, erose. 

 Evanescent, disappearing at a very early 



stage. 

 Even, without elevations or depressions. 

 Exasperate, covered with short hard 



points. 

 Expanded, spread out. 

 Explanate, spread or flattened out instead 



of rolled or folded as usual. 

 Earinose, covered with a white mealy 



powder. 

 Easeiated, marked with broad parallel 



stripes. 

 Eascicled, growing in close bundles or 



clusters. 

 Eavose, honey-combed. 

 Eibiillose, bearing firni loose fibers or 



threads. 

 Eibrous, composed entirely or mostly of 



separable threads. 

 Eilaiiientous, slender and thread-like. 

 Fimbriate, fringed with loose slender 



processes larger than hairs. 

 Fimhi tllate, minutely fringed. 

 Fissile, capable of being split or divided. 

 Flaccid, relaxed, wilted, not able to hold 



up its own weight. 

 Fleshy, soft, but firm, as in a potato. 



Neither gelatinous nor cartilaginous. 

 Flexuose, zigzag, winding. 

 Floccose, clothed with locks or tufis of 



soft woolly hairs. 

 Flocculent, floccose. 



