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GLA'BROUS, smooth; applied to a sur¬ 
face which is destitute of pubescence; 
a surface may be glabrous or smooth 
and not even, or vice versa. 
GLANDS, GLAN'DULES, moist or 
sticky dots resembling the glands on 
the epidermis of phenogams. 
GLAN'DULAR, bearing glands. 
GLAU'COUS, covered with pale green 
bloom or very fine white powder easily 
rubbed off. 
GLE'BA, in Gastromycetes, spore¬ 
bearing tissue composed of chambers 
lined with the hymenium and enclosed 
by the sack-like peridium, as in puff 
balls, etc.; in phalioids the peridium or 
voiva ruptures and the gleba is carried 
up on the stipe-like or clathrate recep¬ 
tacle. 
GLO'BOSE, GLOB'ULAR, GLOB'U- 
LOSE, nearly spherical. 
GLU'TEN, applied to a tenaceous vis¬ 
cous substance resembling gluten 
found on the surface of some mush¬ 
rooms. 
GLU'TINOUS, GLU'TINOSE, covered 
with a sticky exudation; viscous; glue¬ 
like. 
GONID'IUM, same as conidium. 
GRAN'ULAR, GRAN'ULATE, GRAN'- 
ULOSE, covered with or composed of 
granules. 
GRAN'ULE, (a) a little grain; a fine 
particle; (b) a synonym of sporule. 
GREGA'RIOUS, growing in groups, but 
not in a tufted manner. 
GRU'MOUS, clotted; as the contents 
of some cells. 
GUT'TATE, spotted as if with drops of 
something colored. 
GUTT'ULA, (pi. GUTT'ULAE), a small 
drop or drop-like particle; the oil- 
globule in some spores resembling a 
nucleus. 
GUTT'ULATE, finely guttate; also, 
containing or composed of fine drops or 
drop-like particles; said of spores con¬ 
taining an oily nucleus-like globule or 
guttula. 
G.YMNOCAR'POUS, having the hy¬ 
menium exposed when the spores are 
maturing. 
GYM'NOSPERMS, trees or shrubs 
mostly evergreen and resinous having 
the seeds naked, not inclosed in a seed 
vessel; as conifers, etc. 
GY'RATE, GY'ROSE, folded and 
waved; having folds resembling the 
convolutions of the brain. 
HAB'ITAT, the natural place of growth 
of a species. 
HAUSTO'RIUM, (pi. HAUSTO'RIA), 
special branch of filamentous mycelium 
which serves as an organ of adhesion 
and suction. 
HEMIANGIOCAR'POUS, partly angio- 
carpous as those agarics where the hy¬ 
menium is at first enclosed by a veil or 
otherwise and later becomes exposed. 
HERBA'CEOUS, said of phenogamous 
plants which perish annually down to 
(sometimes including) the root. 
HERBA'RIUM, a collection of dried 
plants arranged systematically. 
HERBIC'OLOUS, growing on herba¬ 
ceous plants. 
HETEROGE'NEOUS, of a structure 
which is different from adjacent ones. 
HIBERNAC'ULUM, (pi. HIBERNAC'- 
ULA), applied to bodies which are the 
forms in which certain fungi (e. g 
Typhulae) pass the winter. 
HIRSUTE' covered thickly with rather 
long stiff hairs. 
HIR'TO-VER'RUCOSE, bearing haira 
grouped in wart-like masses. 
HIS'PID, beset with stiff bristles. 
HISTOGENET'IC, relating to the for¬ 
mation of tissue. 
HOAR'Y, covered with short dense 
grayish-white hairs; canescent. 
HOLO-, a prefix signifying ‘entire,’ 
‘whole.’ 
HOMOGE'NEOUS, alike in structure. 
HOMOL'OGOUS, having the same rel¬ 
ative position, proportion, value or 
structure; having correspondence or 
likeness. 
HOMOL'OGY, correspondence in struc¬ 
ture or morphological nature. 
HOST, the name given to any plant or 
animal supporting a parasitic fungus. 
HU'MUS, vegetable mold; woody fibre 
in a state of decay. 
HY'ALINE, colorless; transparent. 
HYBERNAC'ULUM, hibernaculum. 
HYGROMET'RIC, readily absorbing 
and retaining moisture. 
HYGROPHANE'ITY, state of being hy- 
grophanous. 
HYGROPH'ANOUS, looking watery 
when moist, opaque when dry. 
HYGROSCOP'IC, having the property 
of absorbing moisture from the atmos¬ 
phere; sensitive to moisture. 
HYME'NIUM, aggregation of spore- 
mother-cells, with or without sterile 
cells, in a continuous layer upon a 
sporophore; sporogenous loyer; hy- 
menial layer. 
II Y'MENOMYCE'TES, a group of Ba- 
sidiomycetes having the hymenium on 
the free exposed surface of the sporo¬ 
phore. 
HY'MENOPHORE, HYMENOPH'OR- 
UM, portion of a sporophore which 
bears the hymenium. 
HY'PHA, (pi. HY'PHAE), the element¬ 
ary filament or thread of a fungus; a 
cylindric thread-like branched body de¬ 
veloping by apical growth, and usually 
becoming transversely septate. 
HY'PHAL, of or pertaining to a hypha. 
HYPOCRATER'IFORM, having the 
shape of a cylindrical cup the margin 
of which turns outward; salver shaped. 
HYPOGAE'OUS, HYPOGE'AL, HYPO- 
GE'OUS, growing under ground. 
HYPOG'ENOUS, growing on the under 
surface. 
HY'PONASTY, that state of a growing 
dorsi-ventral organ in which the ven¬ 
tral surface grows more actively than 
the dorsal surface. 
