THE FIMETARIALES OF OHIO 
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Conic, having the shape of a cone as the carrot. 
Convolutions, folds. 
Coriaceous, leathery, tough. 
Dichotomous, forked, parted by pairs. 
Ellipsoid, an elliptic solid. 
Erumpent, prominent as though bursting through the epidermis. 
Evanescent, soon disappearing, lasting only a short time. 
Excentrically, one-sided. 
Fascicled, drawn into a close cluster or bundle. 
Filiform, thread-like. 
Flexuous, bent alternately in opposite directions, zigzag. 
Fugacious, soon perishing or disappearing. 
Fuscous, dusky, too brown for a gray. 
Fusiform, thick, but tapering towards each end. 
Gelatinous, jelly-like. 
Germ-pore, a pit on the surface of a spore-envelope through which a germ-tube 
makes its appearance. 
Germ-tube, a tubular process from a spore developing into a hypha, and then into a 
mycelium or promycelium. 
Gregarious, growing in company, associated but not matted. 
Guttulate, resembling drops of oil or resin. 
Homogeneous, of the same kind or nature. 
Hyaline, colorless or translucent. A glass-green. 
Immersed, below the surface. 
Incrusted, covered with a hard crust or coat. 
Limoniformis, lemon-shaped. 
Mycelium, the vegetative portion of the thallus of fungi, composed of hyphae. 
Olivaceous, the color of a ripe olive. 
Ostiolum, the opening through which spores escape from the perithecium. 
Ovoid, an egg-shaped solid. 
Papilla (pi. papillae), soft superficial glands or protuberances; aciculae. 
Papillate, having soft superficial glands, protuberances, or aciculae. 
Papilliform, shaped like a papilla; a small protuberance. 
Paraphyses, sterile filaments occurring in the fruit-body. 
Perforate, pierced through. 
Perithecium (pi. perithecia), a receptacle or case enclosing spores which are naked or 
in asci. 
Persistent, remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes 
fall off or are absorbed. 
Profile, in side view. 
Pyriform, resembling a pear in shape. 
Remote, scattered, not close together. 
Saprophytic, living on dead organic matter. 
Scabrous, roughened or rough to the touch. 
Septate, divided by a partition. 
Septum, (pi. septa), any kind of partition, whether a true dissepiment or not. 
Seriate, disposed in a series of rows. 
Sessile, without a stalk. 
Stroma, a cushion-like body, on or in which the perithecia are immersed; a compound 
fungus-body. 
Subcircinate, somewhat coiled into a circle. 
Subglobose, nearly globular. 
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