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Gleba, the spore-bearing tissue, as in puffb.a.l.l.s and phalloids.
Globose, nearly round.
Granular, with a roughened surface.
Gregarious, growing in numbers in the same vicinity.
Habitat, the natural place of growth of a plant.
Hirsute, hairy.
Host, the plant or animal on which a parasitic fungus grows.
Hyaline, transparent, clear like gla.s.s.
Hygrophanous, looking watery when moist and opaque when dry.
Hygrometric, readily absorbing water.
Hymenium, the fruit-bearing surface.
Hymenoph.o.r.e, the portion which bears the hymenium.
Hypha, one of the elongated cells or threads of the fungus.
Imbricate, overlapping like s.h.i.+ngles.
Immarginate, without a distinct border.
Incarnate, flesh-color.
Indehiscent, not opening.
Indigenous, native of a country or a place.
Indurated, hardened.
Indusium, a veil beneath the pileus.
Inferior, the ring low down on the stem of Agarics.
Infundibuliform, funnel-shaped.
Innate, adhering by growth.
Involute, edges rolled inward.
Isabelline, color of sole leather, brownish-yellow.
Laccate, varnished or coated with wax.
Lacerate, irregularly torn.
Laciniate, divided into lobes.
Lacunose, pitted or having cavities.
Lamella (lamellae), gills of a mushroom.
Lanate, wooly.
Leucospore, white spore.
Livid, bluish-black.
Luteous, yellowish.
Maculate, spotted.
Marginate, having a distinct border.
Micaceous, covered with glistening scales, mica-like.
Micron, one-thousandth of a millimeter, nearly .00004 of an inch.
Mycelium, the delicate threads from germinating spores, called sp.a.w.n.
Nigrescent, becoming black.
Obconic, inversely conical.
Obovate, inversely egg-shaped.
Obese, stout, plump.
Ochraceous, ochre-yellow, brownish-yellow.
Pallid, pale, undecided in color.
Papillate, covered with soft tubercles.
