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GLOSSARY. 



Acrogenous, attached to tips of threads or their branches. 

 Adnate, adhering firmly to the stem. 

 Adnexed, just reaching the stem. 

 Agglutinate, firmly glued to the matrix. 



Amphigenous, when the hymenium is not confined to a particular surface. 

 Anastomosing, threads which become confluent, and form a network. 

 Appendiculate, attached in fragments to the borders of the pileus, sometimes 



applied to spores and sporidia which have terminal appendages. 

 Approximate, approaching but not quite reaching to. 

 Ascus a delicate sac, containing sporidia. 

 Capillitium, a term applied to the threads of puff-balls. 

 Carbonized, filled with dark matter, so as to look charred. 

 Ceratostoma3, perithecia, whose neck is much elongated. 

 Circinatse. disposed in a circle. 



Circumscripta?, surrounded by a thin black crust; consequently when the 



stroma is broken off, a black ring is left on the matrix. 

 Clavseform, club-shaped. 



Columella, a stem forming a central axis, from which threads take their 

 origin. 



Conidia, dust-like, secondary spores. 



Connate, when two or more pilei become united. 



Continuous, when one organ runs into another, without any decided inter- 

 ruption, synonymous with contiguus of Fries. 

 Cyst, a subglobose cell or cavity. 



Decurrent, when the gills are very acute behind and run down the stem. 

 Denudate, naked, not immersed. 

 Determinate, having a distinct outline. 



Dimidiate, seraiorbicular, when relating to the gills of an agaric it intimates 



that they reach only half-way from the border of the pileus to the stem. 

 Disc, the surface of an hymenium, &c. 



Distant, applied to gills, when far apart from each other ; remote means 



that they do not reach the stem. 

 Echinate, beset with short thick bristles. 

 Echinulate, the same, but with more delicate bristles. 

 Effuse, spread out over the matrix. 



Emarginate, when gills are suddenly scooped out before they reach the stem. 

 Emergent, springing from beneath the surface. 



Endochrome, the matter contained in cells before the development of sporidia. 

 Endophlsese, growing in bark. 

 Excipulum, a little saucer or receptacle. 



