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THE POLYPORACEAE OF WI8€0N8IN. 



GLOSSARY. 



Adnate — gills attached squarely to 



stem. 

 Adpressed — growing close to. 

 Alutaceous — grayish yellow. 

 Alveolate — honeyoombed. 

 Annulate — with a ring or annulus. 

 Apiculate — with a short pointed tip. 

 Appendiculate — appendaged. 

 Applanate — flattened. 

 Appressed — lying close to. 

 Arcuate — bow-shape. 

 Areolate — marked by spaces. 

 Attenuate — tapering to a point. 

 Auriculate — eared. 

 Avellaneous — drab. 



Basidium (pi. basidia) — club shaped 



body which bears the spores. 

 BuUose — blistered. 

 Byssoid — cottony. 



Cambium — a layer of formative tissue. 



Canescent — covered with hoary pub- 

 escence. 



Carpophore — stalk of sporocarp. 



Cespitose — growing in tufts. 



Cinereous — ^ashy. 



Conchiform — shell shaped. 



Concolorous — of uniform color. 



Concrescent — ^growing together. , 



Confluent — blended or running to- 

 gether. 



Connate — joined. 



Coriaceous — leathery. 



Corneous — horny. 



Cristate — crested. 



Crustaceous — hard and brittle. 



Cuticulate — ^having a cuticle. 



Cystidia — large single cells among 

 basidia. 



Daedalioid — labyrinthine. 

 Deciduous — not persistent. 

 Decurrent — running down the stem. 

 Dentate — toothed. 

 Denticulate — with little teeth. 

 Determinate — ending definitely. 

 Dimidiate — sessile ipileus semicircular 



in form. 

 Dissepiment — a partition. 



Echinulate — ^beset with short bristles. 

 Effused — spread over. 

 Emarginate — notched at the end. 

 Evanescent — vanishing. 

 Explanate — flattened. 



Favoloid — like a honeycomb. 

 Ferruginous — rust colored. 

 Flbrillose — covered with minute fibers. 

 Fimbriate — ^in the form of delicate 



fringe. 

 Flabelliform — ^fan shaped. 

 Flaccid — soft and limber. 

 Flavescent — yellowish. 

 Flexuous — wavy, winding. 

 Floccose — covered with cottony threads. 

 Flocculose — minutely floccose. 

 Friable — easily broken. 

 Frondose — leafy. 

 Fuliginous — dark smoke color. 

 Fulvous — ^tawny, reddish yellow. 

 Furfuraceous — scurfy, scaly. 

 Fuscous — grayish brown. 

 Fusiform — spindle shaped. 

 Fusoid — like a spindle. 



Gibbous — with a one-sided hump. 

 Gills — lamellae or hymenlal plates. 

 Glabrate — somewhat smooth. 

 Glabrous — smooth, without pubescence. 

 Glandules — sticky dots. 

 Glaucous — with a whitish bloom. 

 Gluten — glue. 

 Gyrose — circular folds. 



Hellcold — spiral. 



Hirsute — stiff hairy. 



Hispid — bristly with strong hairs. 



Hyaline— clear, transparent. 



Hygrophanous — -with a watery appear- 

 ance. 



Hymenlum — fruiting surface. 



Hymenophore — the hymenium bearing 

 portion. 



Hypha — a single mycelium thread. 



Imbricate — overlapping like shingles. 

 Immarglnate — ^without a margin. 

 Incarnate — pink. 

 Indurated — hardened. 

 Infundibullform — funnel shaped. 

 Innate — borne at the apex. 

 Isabelline — dirty, tawny color. 



Labyrinthine — with winding passages. 

 Laccate — milky. 

 Lacerate — ^torn. 



Lacunose with holes. 



Lamellae — gills of mushroom. 

 Lenzitoid — like Lenzites. 

 Lignatile — woody. 

 LIgnicolous — on wood. 



