416 GLOSSARY OF TERMS. 
Inmarginate, without a distinct margin. . 
Immersed, originating beneath the surface of the matrix, or beneath the 
soil. 
Incised, cut. 
Incrassated, thickened. 
Indeterminate, undefined, without any distinct boundary. 
Inflated, swollen like a bladder, puffed out. 
Inflexed, curved or bent inwards. : 
Infundibuliform, funnel-shaped, a tube below and gradually enlarging 
upwards, 
Winat born within, originating within the matrix or within the sub- 
stance of the plant. 
Innato-sessile, the base of the receptacle beneath the surface of the 
matrix, without a stem and somewhat immersed. ae 
Inwolute, rolled inwards ; applied to the margin of the cup when it is 
rolled inwards. 
Jrregular, not in a uniform line or circle, unsymmetrical. 
Lacerated, torn. 
Laciniate, fringed. 
Lacunose, having little cavities, pitted. 
Lanceolate, shaped like the head of a spear, narrow and tapering at 
each end. 
Lateritious, of a brick-red colour. 
Lentiform, lens-shaped. 
Linear, in.a line, where the sides of a spore or other cell are parallel, 
and the length considerably longer than the breadth. 
Livid, pale bluish or leaden grey. 
Lobate, Lobed, divided into lobes. 
Lurid, of a dingy brown. 
Lutescent, yellowish, pale yellow. 
Lvuteus, yellow, like the flowers of woad (Isatis tinctoria). 
Marginate, having a distinct margin. 
Matrix, anything on which a fungus grows. 
Mealy, covered with a scurfy powder, 
Membranaceous, thin, and more or less transparent. 
Mitrate, bonnet-shaped, a rounded and folded pileus. 
Moniliform, necklace-like. 
Mucous, slimy, of the consistence of gum. 
Muiti-, a prefix indicating many; as multiguttulate, having many 
guttule. 
Muricate, rough with short points. 
Muriform, where the contents of a sporidium are arranged or divided 
like the masonry of a stone wall. 
Mycelioid, in the form of mycelium. 
Mycelium, the hyphe or filaments produced from fungus spores. 
