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AS'CUS, (pi. AS'CI), microscopic sack¬ 
like cell in which spores, generally 
eight in number, are developed. 
ASEP'TATE, without partitions or sep¬ 
ta. 
AS'PERATE, AS'PERATED, having a 
rough uneven surface. 
AS'TICHOUS, not arranged in rows. 
ASTIP'ITATE, having no stipe. 
ASTO'MATOUS, without a mouth or ap¬ 
erture; without stomata. 
AS'TOMOUS, without a stoma or mouth. 
AT'AVISM, resemblance to a distant an¬ 
cestor; remote heredity. 
AT'OM, an extremely minute particle of 
matter. 
AT'OMATE, covered with small atoms. 
ATRO-, in composition, ‘black’ or ‘dark.’ 
A'TROPURPU'REOUS, dark purple. 
ATROSANGUIN'EOUS, dark purple; 
dark blood-color. 
ATTEN'UATE, becoming gradually nar¬ 
rowed or smaller. 
AURANTI'ACOUS, orange-colored. 
AUR'EOUS, golden yellow; yellow with 
a slight tinge of red. 
AURIC'ULATE, AUR'IFORM, ear¬ 
shaped. 
AUTO-BASID'IUM, an unseptated bas- 
idium giving rise at the apex to four 
slender sterigmata (sometimes fewer 
sometimes more) each bearing a spore. 
AUTON'OMOUS, said of plants that are 
perfect and complete in themselves; 
not forming part of a cycle; independ¬ 
ent. 
AX'IS, the central line of growth; stipe, 
stalk, etc. 
AZO'NATE, without zones or circular 
bands of different color. 
BAC'CATE, berry-like. 
BA'DIOUS, bay; reddish-brown; chest¬ 
nut color. 
BAND, a broad bar of color. 
BAN'DED, marked with bands. 
BASE, the extremity opposite to the 
apex; the part of an organ nearest its 
point of attachment; applied to lamel¬ 
lae, (a) the line of attachment to the 
pileus , (as connected by veins at the 
base); (b) sometimes used to define the 
end attached to the stipe (broad or 
reticulate at the base). 
BASID'IOGENET'IC, produced upon a 
basidium. 
BASIDIOMYCE'TE’S, group of fungi 
which has its spores produced on bas- 
idia. 
BASID'IOPHORE, a sporophore bearing 
basidia. 
BASID'IOSPORE, spore acrogenously 
abjointed upon a basidium. 
BASID'IUM, (pi. BASID'IA), mother 
cell in the hymenium of Basidio-myce- 
tes formed on the end of a hyphal 
branch and abstricting spores; the 
spores are generally four in number, 
each on a sterigma, but sometimes more 
sometimes fewer and sometimes sessile; 
see autobasidium and proto-basidium. 
BASIP'ETAL, in the direction of the 
base. 
BEHIND', same as posterior, which see. 
BI-, prefix meaning ‘twice.’ 
BIB'ULOUS, having the quality of ab¬ 
sorbing or imbibing moisture. 
BICIP'ETAL, BICIP'ITOUS, in botany, 
divided into two parts at the top or bot¬ 
tom. 
BI'FID, cleft or divided into two 
parts. 
BIFUR'CATE, twoforked; divided into 
two branches. 
BILOC'ULAR, two-celled. 
BIOG'ENOUS, growing on living organ¬ 
isms. 
BISE'RIATE, BISE'RIAB, arranged in 
two rows. 
BIS'TER, BIS'TRE, of the color of bis¬ 
ter, blackish-brown. 
BIOLOG'IC, BIOLOG'ICAL, pertaining 
to biology or the science of life. 
BIOL'OGY, the science of life and living 
things in the widest sense. 
BI'ON, an individual morphologically 
and physiologically independent. 
BOOT'ED, peronate. 
BOSS, a knob or short rounded protu¬ 
berance; umbo. 
BOSSED, furnished with a boss. 
BUI/BOUS, said of the stipe of a mush¬ 
room when it has a bulblike swelling 
at the base. 
BULL'ATE, bearing a short rounded 
protuberance; blister-shaped; bossed. 
BYSSA'CEOUS, BYS'SOID, resembling 
or consisting of fine filaments, like fine 
flax or cotton. 
BYS'SUS, on old name for the filamen¬ 
tous mycelium of certain fungi. 
CAE'STOUS, pale bluish-gray; lavender 
colored. 
CAES'PITOSE, CAES'PITOUS, CES'- 
PITOSE, united in tufts. 
CALCA'REOUS, of lime, or of the na¬ 
ture of lime. 
CALLOS'ITY, CAL/LUS, a hard or 
thickened spot or protuberance. 
CALYP'TRA, hood; applied to that por¬ 
tion of the volva covering the top of 
the pileus. 
CAMPAN'ULATE, bell-shaped. 
CANALIC'ULATE, traversed by small 
canals. 
CAN'CELLATE, reticulated; latticed. 
CAN'DIDOUS, shining white 
CANES'CENT, covered with whitish or 
gray pubescence. 
CAP, pileus; the expanded umbrella-like 
receptacle of the toadstool. 
CAP'ILLARY, pertaining to or resem¬ 
bling hair. 
CAPIL'LIFORM, in the shape or form 
of a hair. 
CAPILLIT'IUM, thread-like tubes or fi¬ 
bres, often branched or combined in a 
net, interpenetrating the mass of spores 
within a ripe sporogenous body—as in 
Lycoperdon. 
CAP'ITATE, having a head, or the form 
of a head. 
CAPIT'ULUM, a small head. 
