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SAB'ULINE, SAB'ULOSE, growing in 
sandy places. 
SAC'CATE, in the form of a sack or 
pouch. 
SAC'CHARINE, of or resembling sug¬ 
ar; covered with shining grains like 
those of sugar. 
SAC'CULE, SAC'CULUS, a small sac or 
pouch. 
SANGUIN'EOUS, blood-colored. 
SAP'ID, agreeable to the taste. 
SAPROG'ENOUS, growing in decaying 
or decomposing animal or vegetable 
matter. 
SAPROPHYT'IC, living upon and de¬ 
riving its sustenance from dead organ¬ 
ic matter. 
SAP'ROPHYTE, a plant that lives on 
decaying vegetable or animal matter. 
SCA'BRATE, SCA'BROUS, rough, 
rugged; especially, rough to the touch. 
SCALAR'IFORM, in the form of a lad¬ 
der. 
SCAPH'OID, boat-shaped. 
SCA'RIOSE, SCA'RIOUS, thin, dry and 
membranaceous. 
SCIS'SILE, capable of being easily split 
or cleft; said of lamellae which can 
easily be split into two plates. 
SCLERIT'IC, SCLE'ROID, SCRE'ROSE, 
SCLE'ROSED, having a hard texture. 
SCLERO'TIOID, resembling a sclero- 
tium. 
SCLERO'TIUM, (pi. SCLERO'TIA), 
hard, black, compact, tuber-like body, 
which is the resting stage of certain 
fungi, as in Peziza tuberosa; it re¬ 
mains dormant for a time and then 
sends up shoots which develop into 
sporophores at the expense of the re¬ 
serve material. 
SCO'BIFORM, resembling sawdust. 
SCROBIC'ULATE, pitted. 
SCU'TELLATE, shaped like a plate or 
platter. 
SEMI-, prefix meaning ‘half’ or ‘par¬ 
tial.’ 
SEP'ARABLE, capable of being de¬ 
tached. 
SEP'ARATING, becoming detached, as 
lamellae from the stipe, or resupinate 
fungi from the matrix. 
SEP'TATE, having partitions. 
SEP'TUM, (pi. SEP'TA), partition. 
SE'RIATE, arranged in rows. 
SERIC'EOUS, silky. 
SER'RATE, having marginal teeth 
shaped like saw teeth. 
SER'RUL/ATE, minutely serrate. 
SES'SILE, attached by the base; hav¬ 
ing no stipe or stalk. 
SE'TA, (pi. SE'TAE), a bristle. 
SETA'CEOUS, SETIG'EROUS, SE' 
TOSE, beset with bristles. 
SIG'MOID, said of an elongated spore 
having the ends bent slightly in oppo¬ 
site directions; s-shaped. 
SIN'UATE, SIN'UOSE, SIN'UOUS, tor¬ 
tuous; serpentine; turning or wind¬ 
ing in and out; applied to an 
edge the outline of which is al¬ 
ternately concave and convex; a 
sinuate lamella has a sudden wave or 
sinus in its edge near the stipe. 
SI'NUS, a rounded inward curve be¬ 
tween two projecting lobes. 
SMOOTH, glabrous; destitute of any 
kind of pubescence; a surface may be 
uneven and yet smooth. 
SOL'ITARY, growing singly. 
SOR'DID, of a dingy, dirty hue. 
SPADIC'EOUS, date-brown, duller and 
darker than bay-brown. 
SPATH'ULATE, oblong or rounded and 
flattened at the top, with a long nar¬ 
row attenuate base. 
SPE'CIES, an individual or collectively 
those individuals which differ specific¬ 
ally from all other members of a genus 
and which do not differ from each other 
except within narrow limits of varia¬ 
bility, and which produce by propaga¬ 
tion other individuals of the same kind. 
SPECIFTC, of, pertaining to, constitut¬ 
ing, peculiar to, characteristic of, diag¬ 
nostic of, designating species or a 
species; not generic; not of wider ap¬ 
plication than to a species. 
SPHAG'NUM, peat or bog-moss. 
SPHER'ICAL, SPHE'ROID, of the 
shape of a ball or globe, or nearly so. 
SPIC'ULAR, SPIC'ULATE, SPIC'U- 
LOUS, covered with spicules. 
SPIC'ULE, a sharp-pointed body re¬ 
sembling a needle; a little spike. 
SPORAN'GIOPHORE, special mycelial 
branch bearing a sporangium. 
SPORAN'GIUM, (pi. SPORAN'GIA), 
sac producing spores endogenously. 
SPORE, the reproductive body of cryp¬ 
togams analogous to the seed of phen- 
ogams; the terms spores, sporidia, spor- 
ules and conidia have been applied 
somewhat indiscriminately to all spore- 
bodies; it has been recommended by 
some authorities and accepted by Sac- 
cardo to limit the term spore to the 
naked spore produced on a basidium, 
sporidium to the spore produced in an 
ascus, sporule to the spore of imper¬ 
fect fungi, where enclosed in a perithe- 
cium, conidium to the spore of imper¬ 
fect fungi, where not enclosed in a per- 
ithecium or ascus; according to these 
limitations the terms spermatium, sty- 
lospore, clinospore are merged in spor¬ 
ule. 
SPORIDIF'ERA, a class of fungi in 
which the spores are enclosed in asci. 
SPORIDIF'EROUS, SPORIDIIF'EROUS, 
(a) bearing sporidia; (b) applied to a 
fungus of the class Sporidifera. 
SPORID'IUM, (pi. SPORIDHA), an as- 
cospore or endospore; see spore. 
SPORIF'ERA, a class of fungi in which 
the spores are free, naked, or soon ex¬ 
posed. 
SPORIF'EROUS, (a) bearing spores, (b) 
applied to a fungus of the class Sporif- 
era. 
