692 GLOSSARY 



Pilose. Pilous. Hairy, having soft and distinct hairs. 



Planose. Plane. 



Plasmodiocarp. An as3nnmetrical sporangium of the Myxogastres. 



Plasmodium. Body of naked plurinucleated protoplasm exhibiting 



amceboid motion. 

 Pleurogenous. Growing from the sides. 

 Plexus. A network. 



Plicate. Folded into plaits usually lengthwise. 

 Polar. Relating to the poles of an organ. 

 Polymorphic. Polymorphous. With several or various forms, variable 



as to habit. 

 Polysporic. Many spored. 

 Porcelaneous. Like porcelain. 

 Poroid. Resembling pores. 

 Porose. Containing pores. 

 Proliferous. Bearing offshoots. 

 Promycelium. Short and short-lived product of tube-germination of 



a spore which adjoins acrogenously a small number of spores 



(sporidia) unlike the mother-spore and then dies off. 

 Pseudo. In prefix signif jdng false, counterfeit, spurious. 

 Pulverulent. Powdered, as if dusted over. 

 Pulvinate. Cushion-shaped. 

 Punctiform. In the form of a point or dot. 

 Punctulate. Marked with small points. 

 Pustular. Blister-like, bearing blisters. 

 Pustule. A pimple or blister. 

 Pustuliform. Having slight blister-like elevations. 

 Putrescent. Becoming rotten. 

 Pycnidium (a). A variously shaped cavity resembling a p3Tenocarp 



and containing conidia. 

 Pycniospore. Spores borne in pycnia. 

 Pycnium. A structure of the Uridinales; see pp. 324f-326. 

 Pycnosclerotia. Sclerotia bearing pycnidia. 

 Pycnospores. Spores from pycnidia. 

 Pyriform. Piriform. Resembling a pear in shape. 



Radiate. Spreading from or arranged aroimd a common center. 



Ramicole. Growing on branches. 



Ramose. Branched. 



Receptacle. That part which bears one or more organs. 



