GLOSSARY. 



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Spire. Minute bodies answering the 

 purpose of seeds in the cryptogams. 



xi'p. Tbe fruit-body in Fungi; 

 that part of the plant which produces 

 ami curries the spores, — the whole 

 piant, exclusive of the vegetative 

 mycelium. 



goniutn. The capsule and it> ap- 

 pendages, such as stalk, apophysis 

 and the like when these are present; 

 the non-sexual generation of the plant. 



8quamifomu Shaped like a scale. 



Souanutlose. Made up of, or covered 

 with, minute scales. 



8quarram . Spreading open widely and 

 abruptly from the axis. 



Striate. Marked with tine parallel lines 

 or furrows. 



The substance in which the 

 perithecia of some Lichens and Fungi 

 are immersed. 



Sub. As a prefix means in a slight de- 

 . somewhat. 



Smbetrate. That upon which a plant 

 ws. 



Subulate. Awl-shaped; very narrow 

 and tapering to a line point from a 

 broadish base. 



Symbiotic. Deriving mutual benefit 

 from living together. 



. Round in the sense of having 

 a circular transverse section. 



ttt'l. Checkered in little squares. 

 Tttraspore*. Xon-sexual sp<>tv< of the 

 Floridea', formed by the division of a 

 single cell into four parts. 



TluiUint; (exciple). Of the same sub- 

 stance AS the thallus. 



Tkattcm . Like a thallus. without differ- 

 entiation into stem and lra\ es. 

 Tomentoee. Densely pubescent, with 



>nt't woolly hairs. 



Trunin. The substance intermediate 



between hymeiiial surfaces, a- in the 

 gills of such Fungi as Agaricus. 



TrUocular. Three-celled. 



Trichotomoms. Three-forked. 



Turbinate. Shaped like a top. 



Uniform (thallus). Neither lobed nor 



branched: forming a crust uniformly 



spread over the substrate. 



Unilocular. One-celled. 



Voice*. Distinct portions of such organs 

 a- capsules, which become detached 

 from one another by dehiscence in a 

 definite manner. 



Veil. A delicate membrane which 

 shields spore-producing organs in 

 their earlier stages. 



Ventral. Used in contradistinction to 

 dorsal. 



Ventricote. Swelling unequally, or in- 

 dated on one side. 



U< riculote (trama). As if composed of 

 little bladders. 



Zodspores. The free-swimming spores 



of certain Alga' and Fungi. 

 Zygospore. A spore resulting from the 



conjugation of two similar cells. 



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