GLOSSARY 
Adnate, closely attached, as gills to stipe. 
Adnexed, gills reaching the stem but not 
adnate to it. 
Anastomosing, united by running together 
irregularly, as of gills or veins with 
each other. 
Annulus, the ring on the stem of a musk- 
room formed by the separation of the 
veil from the margin of the cap. 
Apex, in mushrooms, the extremity of the 
stem nearest the gills. 
Appendiculate, having an appendage hang- 
ing in small fragments. 
Areolate, divided into little 
patches. 
Ascending, rising somewhat obliquely up- 
ward or curving. 
Asci, plural of ascus. 
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Ascomycetes, group of fungi in which the 
spores are produced in saclike cells 
called asci. 
Ascus, Microscopie saclike cell in which 
spores, generally eight in number, are 
developed. 
Attenuate, becoming gradually narrowed or 
smaller. 
Azonate, without zones or circular bands 
of different color. 
Basidium, an enlarged cell which 
spores are borne. - 
Bulbous, applied to stem of a mushroom 
with bulblike swelling at the base. 
Campanulate, bell-shaped. 
Cartilaginous, gristly, firm, and tough. 
Cespitose, growing in tufts or clumps. 
Coriaceous, of a leathery texture. 
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Corrugated, having a wrinkled appear- 
ance. 
Cortex, an outer rindlike layer. 
Crenate, notched at the edge, notches 
blunt, not sharp as in a serrated edge. 
Cuticle, skinlike layer on the outer sur- 
face of cap and stem. 
Deciduous, falling off at maturity. 
Decurrent, applied to gills that are pro- 
longed down the stem. 
Dentate, toothed. 
Dimidiate, halved. 
Distant, applied to gills that are not close. 
Emarginate, when gills are notched or 
scooped out at junction with stem. 
Excentric, not central. 
Exoperidium, outer layer of the peridium. 
Expanded, spread out, as the pileus (cap) 
from convex to plane. 
Fibrillose, appearing to be covered with 
or composed of minute fibers. 
Fibrous, clothed with small fibers. 
Floccose, downy, woolly. 
Free, said of gills not attached to the stem. 
Genus, a group of closely related species. 
Gibbous, swollen at one side. 
Glabrous, smooth. 
Glebe, spore-bearing tissue in Gastromy- 
cetes. 
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Granular, covered with or composed of 
granules. 
Gregarious, growing together in numbers 
in the same locality. 
Mable natural place of growth of a 
plant. 
Hygrophanous, watery when moist, opaque 
when dry. 
Hymenium, the fruit-bearing surface. 
Hymenoplore the sporophore or fruiting 
ody. 
Imbricate, overlapping like shingles. 
Infundibuliform, funnel-shaped. 
Innate, adhering by growth. 
Involute, rolled inward. 
Lanceolate, tapering to both ends. 
Line, one-twelfth of an inch. 
Marginate, having a well-defined border. 
Obovate, broad end upward or toward the 
apex. 
Partial, said of a veil clothing the stem 
and reaching to the edge of the cap but 
not extending beyond it. 
Pellicle, a thin skin. 
Pileate, having a cap or pileus. 
Pileus, cap of a fungus.” 
Plane (of pileus), with a flat surface. 
Plicate, folded like a fan. 
Pruinose. covered with a bloom or powder. 
Reflexed, turned back. 
Resupinate, attached to the matrix by the 
back, the hymenium facing outward. 
Reticulate, marked with cross lines like 
the meshes of a net. 
Revolute, rolled backward or upward. 
Ring, annulus, a part of the veil adhering 
in the form of a ring to the stem of an 
agarie. 
Rugose, wrinkled. 
Serrate, saw-toothed. 
Sinuate, wavy, as the margin of gills. 
Species, the smallest group of plants or 
animals to which distinctive and in- 
variable characters can be assigned. 
Stipe, stem of a mushroom. 
Sore marked with parallel or radiating 
ines. 
Stuffed, said of a stem filled with mate- 
rial of a different texture from its walls. 
Suleate, grooved, marked with furrows. 
Fomentose densely pubescent with matted 
wool. 
Tubercle, wartlike excrescence. 
Umbilicate, with a central depression. 
Umbo, central elevation. 
Undulate, wavy. 
Universal, said of the veil or volva which 
entirely envelopes the fungus when 
young. 
Ventricose, swollen in the middle. 
Villose, covered with long, weak hairs. 
Viscid, moist and sticky. 
Viscous, gluey. : 
Zonate, marked with concentric bands of 
color. 
