Chapter IV: Appendix: A

CONTINUATION OF GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN DESCRIBING MUSHROOMS.

_Maculate_, spotted.

_Marginate_, having a distinct border.

_Matrix_, the substance upon which a mushroom grows.

_Medial_, at the middle; of the ring of a mushroom which is between superior or near the apex of the stem, and distant or far removed from the apex.

_Merismoid_, having a branched or laciniate pileus.

_Moniliform_, contracted at intervals in the length, like a string of beads.

_Multifid_, having many divisions.

_Multipartite_, divided into many parts.

_Mycelium_, the delicate threads proceeding from the germinating spores, usually white and popularly termed spawn.

_Narrow_, of very slight vertical width.

_Netted_, covered with projecting reticulated lines.

_Nucleus_, the reproductive germ in the spore.

_Obconic_, inversely conical.

_Obcordate_, like an inverted heart.

_Oblique_, slanting.

_Oblong_, longer than broad.

_Obovate_, inversely egg-shaped, broadest at the apex.

_Obtuse_, blunt or rounded.

_Ochrospore_, ochre-colored spore.

_Orbicular_, having the form of an orb.

_Order_, group of a classification intermediate between tribe and family.

_Ostiole_, _ostiolum_, mouth of the perithecium; orifice through which the spores are discharged.

_Ovate_, egg-shaped.

_Pallid_, pale, undecided color.

_Papillate_, _papillose_, covered with soft tubercles.

_Paraphyses_, sterile cells found with the reproductive cells of some plants.

_Parasitic_, growing on and deriving support from another plant.

_Partial_, of a veil clothing the stem and reaching to the edge of the cap but not extending beyond it.

_Patent_, spreading.

_Pectinate_, toothed like a comb.

_Pedicel_, foot-stock.

_Pedicillate_, having a pedicel.

_Pelliculose_, furnished with a pellicle or distinct skin.

_Penciled_, with pencil-like hairs either on the tip or border.

_Peridium_, general covering of a puff-ball, simple or double, dehiscent or indehiscent at maturity.

_Perithecia_, bottle-like receptacles containing asci.

_Peronate_, used when the stem has a distinct stocking-like coat.

_Persistent_, inclined to hold firm, tenacious.

_Pervious_, forming an open tube-like passage.

_Pileate_, having a cap.

_Pileoli_, secondary pilei; arising from a division of the primary pileus.

_Pileus_, the cap, receptacle, or one part of a mushroom; other parts are the stem and gills.

_Pilose_, covered with hairs.

_Pits_, depressions in cells or tubes resembling pores, applied also to hollow depressions in the surface of the cap of the morel.

_Plumose_, feathery.

_Pore_, orifice of the tubes of polypores.

_Poriform_, in the form of pores.

_Porous_, having pores.

_Powdery_, covered with bloom or powder.

_Projecting_, the anterior end jutting out beyond the margin.

_Proliferous_, applied to an organ which gives rise to secondary ones of the same kind.

_Pruinose_, covered with frost-like bloom.

_Pruniform_, plum-shaped.

_Pubescent_, downy.

_Pulverulent_, covered with dust.

_Pulvinate_, cushion-shaped.

_Punctate_, dotted with points.

_Pyriform_, pear-shaped.

_Quaternate_, arranged in groups of four.

_Receptacle_, a part of the mushroom extremely varied in form, consistency, and size, inclosing the organs of reproduction.

_Remote_, when the margin of the gill comes to an end before reaching the stem.

_Reniform_, kidney-shaped.

_Repand_, bent backwards.

_Resupinate_, of mushrooms spread over the matrix without any stem and with the hymenium upwards; inverted by twisting of the stalk.

_Reticulate_, marked with cross lines like the meshes of a net.

_Revolute_, rolled backwards; of the margin of a cap, the opposite of involute.

_Rhodospore_, rose or pink spore.

_Rimose_, cracked.

_Ring_, a part of the veil adhering to the stem of a mushroom in the shape of a ring.

_Rivulose_, marked with lines like rivulets.

_Rubiginous_, rust colored.

_Rufescent_, reddish in color.

_Rugose_, wrinkled.