THE POLYPORACEAE OF WISCONSIN. 



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Lignin — substance impregnating wall 



of wood cells. 

 Lignose — woody. 

 Lurid — dingy ferown. 



Marginate — with a margin. 

 Mucedineus — -cottony. 

 Multiplex — ^many of the same. 

 Mycelium — vegetative portion of fun- 

 gus. 



Nodose — with joints. 

 Nodular — knobby. 



Obsolete — lacking. 



Ochraceous — yellow with a tinge of 



red. 

 Orbicular — round. 

 Osseous — like bone. 



Pallescent — turning pale. 



Pallid — pale. 



Papillae — nipple shaped projections. 



Papyraceous — ^papery. 



Pellucid — clear. 



Peronate — rough. 



Fileoli — small pilei. 



Pileus — cap. 



Pilose— hairy. 



Plicate — folded. 



Polycephalous — with many heads, 



Polyporoid — like a polypore. 



Porose — with pores. 



Porus — a pore. 



PTuinate — ^somewhat powdery. 



Prulnose — powdery. 



Pubescence^ — hairs. 



Pulverulent — minutely powdered. 



Pulvinate — cushioned. 



Punctate — dotted. 



Pljnctiform — ^dot-like. 



Putrescent — decaying. 



Pyriform — ^pear form. 



Radicate — somewhat rooted. 



Reniform — kidney^haped. 



Resupinate — spread over the substra- 

 tum. 



Rhizomorph— root-like branch of my- 

 celia. 



Rimose — cracked. 



Rivulose — channeled. 



Rufescent — ^becoming reddish. 



Rugose — wrinkled. 



Rugulose — minutely wrinkled. 



Saprophyte — ^growing on dead organic 

 matter. 



Scabrous — rough to the touch. 

 Scrupose — rough, jagged. 

 Scurfy — with small scales. 

 Scutate — ^shield-shape. 

 Scutellate — like a small shield. 

 Seriate — in a series. 

 Sericeous — silky. 

 Sessile — stemless. 

 Setulose — with bristles. 

 Sinuous — deeply waved. 

 Sordid — dirty. 

 Spadlceous — brownish. 

 Spatulate — oblong, lower end smaller. 

 Spinules— little spines. 

 Sporophore — spore bearing portion. 

 Squamose — scaly. 

 Squamulose — with minute scales. 

 Squarrose — with prominent reflexed 



scales. 

 Stipe — stalk. 

 Stipitate — stalked. 

 Stratose — in layers. 

 Strigose — covered with stiff hairs. 



Sub. more or less. 



Suberose^corky. 



Subiculum — a cottony mycelium. 



Sulcate — furrowed. 



Tomentum — dense hair or wool. 

 Tracheid — vasiform wood cell. 

 Trama — hyphae at base of hymenium. 

 Tametoid — like. Trametes. 

 Tremelline — jelly-like. 

 Triquetrous — ^with three angles. 

 Tuberculose — roughened. 

 Tumid — swollen. 



Umbllicate — depressed in the center. 

 Umbonate — bearing a protuberance. 

 Umbrinous — brownish. 

 Undulate — wavy. 

 Ungulate — clawed. 



Unguliform — like a claw. 

 Velutlnous — velvety. 

 Vesicular — composed of vessels. 

 Villose — somewhat woolly. 

 Villous — with long soft hairs. 

 Virgate — wand shaped. 

 Viscid — glutinous, sticky. 

 Viscous — clammy. 

 Vitelline^ — yellowish. 

 Volva — an envelope which completely 

 surrounds young plants. 



Zonate — with concentric bands. 



