CONTINUATION OF GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN DESCRIBING MUSHROOMS.
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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.