684 GLOSSARY 



Columnar. Having the form of a column. 



Compound. Similar parts aggregated into a common whole. 



Con or Com. In Latin compounds signifying with. 



Conchate. Shell-shaped. 



Concolorous. Of one color. 



Confluent. Blended into one. 



Conglobate. Collected into a ball. 



Conidiophore. A sporophore bearing a conidium. 



Conidiospore. Same as conidium. 



Conidium (a). Dust-like spores usually produced directly from the 



hyphse. 

 Conjugation. Union of two like gametes to form a zygote. 

 Connate. United. 



Constricted. Drawn together; contracted. 

 Context. The flesh of a mushroom and the corresponding substance in 



other pileate fungi. 

 Continuous. The reverse of interrupted. 

 Convoluted. Convolute. Rolled round. 

 Coremium. The name of a genus of fungi, derived from a Greek word 



meaning broom. 

 Coriaceous. Leathery. 

 Corneous. Of horny texture. 

 Cortex. The bark or rind. The peridium of Fungi. 

 Cortical. Relating to the cortex. 

 Costate. Ribbed. 



Craterifoim. Globet or cup-shaped. 

 Cristate. Crested. 

 Cruciate. Cross-shaped. 

 Crustose. Crust-like. 

 Cuboid. Resembling a cube. 

 Cupulate. With a cupule. 

 Cupuliform. Shaped like a small cup. 

 Cuticle. The outermost skin. 

 Cuticulate. Having a cuticle. 



Cylindric. Cylindrical. Elongated, with a circular cross-section. 

 Cyme. Cluster of determinate or centrifugal type, especially a broad 



and flattened one. 

 Cyst. A sac or cavity. 

 Cystidium (a). Large, one-celled, sometimes inflated bodies, projecting 



beyond the basidia and paraphyses of the hymenium of Agarics. 

 Cytolitic. A ferment which dissolves the cell-wall. 



