GLOSSARY OF TERMS 383 



Endophyte, a plant which grows within another. 



Entire, having a margin destitute of teeth or notches. 



Epizoic, growing upon living animals, either parasitic or not. 



Erose, gnawed as if bitten irregularly. Fig. 13, i. 



Excretion, the separation of unassimilable matter from an organism. 



Faculative, occasional, incidental. 



False dichotomy, any dichotomous appearance which does not arise from a 



terminal division of the main axis. 

 Farinose, as if covered with a white, mealy powder, mealy. 

 Ferruginous, color of iron rust, brownish red. 

 Filamentous, threadlike, or composed of filaments. Fig. 11, E. 

 Filiform, threadlike. 



Fimbriate, fringed, bordered by slender processes larger than hairs. Fig. 13, G. 

 Flavus, pure, pale yellow, lemon yellow. 

 Flexuose, wavy, winding. 



Floccose, composed of matted, woolly hairs, denser than filamentous. 

 Floculent, as light feathery particles. 

 Fuliginous, dark brown, sooty or smoky. 

 Fuscescent, slightly brown. 

 Fuscous, grayish brown. 

 Fusiform, spindle-shaped, tapering towards each end. 



Gelatinous, consistency of jelly. 

 Globose, spherical, shape of a globe. 

 Gregarious, growing in groups or clusters. 

 Grumous, clotted in clustered grains. Fig. 12, D. 

 Gyrose, marked with wavy lines. Fig. 12, I. 



Habitat, the situation, locus, or mode of occurrence of an organism. 

 Heterosporous, having asexually produced spores of more than one kind. 

 Homochromous, of uniform color. 

 Homogeneous, of a uniform structure throughout. 

 Hyaline, clear or colorless, like glass or water. 



Immarginate, without a distinctly defined rim or border. 



Infectious, includes contagious as already defined, but applies also to diseases 

 originating from germs which are to vegetate for a time at least outside of 

 the aifected animal or plant. In a strict sense infectious applies only to 

 diseases produced by organisms which have their natural home outside 

 the infected body. 



Infundibuliform, shape of a funnel conical. 



