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INTRODUCTION TO 



THE STUDY OF FUNGI 



Bestingspore — a spore which lies dor- 

 mant or rests for a period before 

 germination. A hibernating spore. 



Resting stage, resting period — stage or 

 period of quiescence or dormancy. 



Besupinate — attached to the matrix by 

 the back. 



Rhizoid, or Bhizine — thread-like deli- 

 cate organs of attachment. 



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Saprophyte — a plant living arid 

 thriving on dead organic matter. 



Sclerotium — hard tuber-like body filled 

 with reserve material, of the nature 

 of a compact mycelium, which re- 

 mains dormant for a time, and then 

 develops sporophores. 



Scolecite — peculiar rudimentary bodies 

 in Discomycetes which are probably 

 the first distinction of fertile from 

 sterile hypha, doubtfully described 

 as sexual. 



Sorus — a heap, or aggregation, chiefly 

 of reproductive bodies. 



Spermatium — male gamete cell which 

 conjugates with a trichogyne. 



Spermatozoid — thread-like bodies, pos- 

 sessed of motion, and supposed to be 

 fecundative. 



Sporangiole — small sporangium, pro- 

 duced in some genera of Mucors, 

 supplementary to large sporangium. 



Sporangiophore — the sperophore of a 

 sporangium. 



Sporangium — envelope or sac in which 

 spores are produced. 



Spore — in a general sense it is a repro- 

 ductive cell, which becomes free, and 

 is capable of developing into a new 

 plant ; in a special sense, restricted 

 to the Hymenomycetes. 



Sporidesm — multicellular spore-body, 

 becoming free, of which each cell is 

 an independent spore. 



Sporidiolum — diminutive of sporidium 

 — applied to promycelial spores in 

 the Uredines. 



Sporidiwm — in Ascomycetes, a spore 

 developed in an ascus. In Uredines 

 a spore abjointed on a promycelium. 



Sponferous — bearing spores. 



Sporocarp — multicellular body, de- 

 veloped sexually from an archicarp, 

 unlike the body which produced the 

 archicarp, and serving to form 

 spores. 



Sporogenous — producing spores. 



Sporophore — branch which bears spores, 

 or mother-cells. . 



Sporule — designation for spore, en- 



closed in a perithecium, in imperfect 

 Fungi, such as Sphaeropsideae, with- 

 out asei. 



Sterigma, Spicule — slender stalk-like 

 branch of basidium bearing a spore. 



•Stipe — general term for the stalk of a 

 sporophore, usually applied to the 

 stem of Agarics. 



Stroma — Fungus body with the form of 

 a cushion, crust, club, or branched 

 expansion ; usually supporting com- 

 pound fructification. 



Stylospore — spore borne on a filament. 



Suspensor — in Mucors ; club-shaped or 

 conical portion of hypha, adjoining a 

 gamete cell after its differentiation. 



Swarm-cell — naked motile protoplasmic 

 body. 



Symbion — an organism living in a state 

 of symbiosis. 



Symbiosis — the living together of dis- 

 similar organisms. 



Teleutospore — in Uredines, the ulti- 

 mate spore of the cycle which is 

 capable of germinating and producing 

 a promycelium. 



Thallophytes — cellular Cryptogamia. 

 Includes Algae and Fungi, where 

 there is no differentiation into stem 

 and leaf. 



Thallus — the vegetative body of a 

 Thallophyte. 



Theca — the same as ascus. 



Thecaspore — synonymous with asco- 

 spore. 



Trama — in Basidiomycetes, the middle 

 tissue of the gill plates, or other 

 projections of the receptacle which 

 bears the hymenium. 



Trichogyne — female receptive portion 

 of an archicarp to which the sper- 

 matia become attached. 



Tubulus, Tube — in Hymenomycetes, 

 the tube lined with the hymenium, 

 as in Polyporei. 



Uredo — hymenium producing uredo- 

 spores. 



Uredospore JJredogonidium — in Dre- 

 dineae, spore formed upon a sporo- 

 phore from which it separates at 

 maturity, and on germination pro- 

 duces a mycelium bearing uredospores 

 or teleutospores, or both. 



Uterus — same as peridium in Gastro- 

 mycetes. 



Veil, Velum — in Hymenomycetes, 

 ' special envelope in which the growth 



