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GLOSSARY
Cerebriform {cerebrut/i, the brain), having an irregular brain-like appearance,.
like the kernel of a walnut.
Ciliate {ciliuvi, an eye-lash), fringed with hairs.
Cinereous {c 'mis, ashes), ash-coloured.
Cingulate {cingulum, a girdle), bearing a ring or annulus on the stem.
Clavate [clava, a club), club-shaped.
Columella [columella, a small pillar), the small columnar base of barren tissue in
Lycoperdon, Geastei', etc.
Conceptacle [co?iceptac2ilum, a receptacle), a hollow case enclosing reproductive
bodies.
Conchiform [concha, a shell), shell-shaped.
Concrete [coiicretus, growing together), as when the scales adhere to the flesh of
the pileus.
Conidia (Gr. ko?iis, dust), simple asexual spores.
Connate [con, together, nascor, to be born), united by growing together.
Connivent [cofmiveo, to wink), arching over to meet.
Coriaceous [corium, leather), leathery.
Cortex (bark or rind), the periderm in the Gaste7'omyceies.
Corticate, with a bark-like covering.
Cortina [cortina, a veil), a veil of spider-web structure as the veil in Cortina^'ius..
Cortinate, furnished with a veil.
Costate [costatus, ribbed), ribbed or veined.
Crenate [crena, a notch), with rounded notches on the margin.
Crenulate, with small rounded notches.
Cribrose [cribmm, a sieve), pierced with many holes.
Cupulate [cupula, a little cup), cup-shaped.
Cuspidate [ctispis, a point, spear), with a sharp spear-like point.
Cuticle [c2iticula, the outer skin), the outermost skin.
Cyathiform (Gr. kuathos, a wine-cup), cup-shaped.
Decumbent [decumbo, to recline), reclining but with summit ascending.
Decurrent [decurro, to run down), of gills and tubes running down the stem in
the Agaricaceci, Polypo7-acecz, etc.
Dehiscing [dehisco, to yawn), opening when ripe.
Deliquescent [deliqtiescens, melting aw^ay), becoming fluid when mature.
Denticulate [denticulatus, minutely toothed), as in the minute teeth on the edge
of the gills in certain Agaricacece.
Depressed [depressus, sunk down), slightly hollowed.
Determinate [determino, to limit), ending definitely, as in the margin of some
species of Corticium, etc., not powdered or clouded off indefinitely.
Diaphanous (Gr. dia, through, phamo, to appear), more or less transparent.
Dichotomous (Gr. dichotomeo, to cut in two), divided into two, forked.
Dimidiate [aimidio, to halve), as when one part of an organ is smaller than the
other as in the pilei of many fungi.
Disciform [discus, a quoit), circular and flat.
Dissepiments [dissepimentum, a partition), dividing walls.
Distant, of gills in the Agaricacece with a wide distance between them.
Divaricate [divarico, to spread asunder), very divergent, separating at an obtuse
angle.
Echinulate [echimcs, a hedgehog), with short bristles.
Effused [effundo, to pour out), spread over without regular form.
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Emarginate [e, out of, ma7go, the margin), of gills with a sudden curve as if
scooped out at the point of attachment to the stem.
Endoperidium (Gr. endon, within), the inner layer of the peridium.
Endophyte, Entophyte (Gr. entos, within, phuton, a plant), growing within
another plant.
Epiphyte (Gr. epi, upon, phuto7i, a plant), growdng upon another plant.
Erumpent [erumpens, breaking through), bursting through the epidermis.
Evanescent [evanesce7is, disappearing), lasting only a short time.
Excipulus [excipula, a basin), the rim round the base of the apothecium.
Exoperidium (Gr. exo, without), the outer layer of the peridium.
Farinose [fariiia, meal), mealy.
Fasciate [fascia, a band or girth), zoned as with coloured bands.
Fasciculate [fascis, a bundle), growing in small bundles.
Fastigiate [fastigmm, a slope or gable), with-branches parallel, clustered and
erect, sometimes decreasing in height outwards and giving a gable shape.
Ferruginous [femun, iron), of the colour of iron-rust.
Fibrillose [fibra, a fibre), clothed with small fibres.
Filiform [filum, a thread), thread-like.
Fimbriate [fimbi-ia, a fringe), fringed.
Fissile [fissilis, tending to split), capable of being split.
Fistulose [fistula, a pipe), hollow like a pipe.
Flocci [floccus, a lock of wool), woolly locks.
Floccose, woolly.
Flocculent, diminutive of floccose.
Flocculose, covered with small flocci.
Free, of gills which reach the stem, but are not attached to it.
Fuliginous [fidigi7ieus, sooty), soot-coloured.
Funiculus [fin is, a rope), a cord of hyphæ in Nidularia which attaches the
peridiolum to the inner surface of the wall of the peridium.
Furcate [furcatus, forked), as in the branching gills common in Russula.
Furfuraceous [furfttr, bran), with branny scales or scurf.
Fuscous [fuscus, dusky), of a dingy brownish colour.
Fusiform [ftsus, a spindle), somewhat thick but tapering towards each end.
Fusoid, somewhat spindle-shaped.
Gibbous [gibhus, hump-backed), of a pileus with a swelling or broad umbo, or
convex above and flat beneath.
Gills, the plates of an agaric on which the hymenium is situated.
Glabrous [glaber, without hair), not bearing hairs.
Glaucous (Gr. glaukos, bluish-grey), covered with a bluish-grey bloom.
Gleba [gleba, a clod), the contents of the peridium in the Gastero7uycetes.
Greaved, of a stem clothed as if with a greave.
Gregarious [g?’ega7'ius, belonging to a flock), growing in company, but not
cæspitose.
Grumous [grumus, a little heap), clotted ; of flesh composed of little clustered
grains.
Guttate [gutta, a tear), with tear-like spots.
Gyrose (Gr. guros, round), curved backward and forward in turn.
Habit [habitus, appearance), the general appearance.
Habitat [habitatio, dwelling), the locality.