Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous - LightNovelsOnl.com
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_Adnexed_, gills just reaching the stem.
_Adpressed_, pressed in close contact, as applied to gills.
_aeruginous_, verdigris-green.
_Agglutinated_, glued to the surface.
_Aggregated_, collected together.
_Alveolate_, socketed or honeycombed.
_Amphigenous_, when the hymenium is not restricted to a particular surface.
_a.n.a.logy_, superficial or general resemblance without structural agreement.
_Anastomosing_, branching, joining of one vein with another.
_Annular_, ring-shaped.
_Annulate_, having a ring.
_Annulus_, ring round the stem of agarics.
_Apex_, in mushrooms the extremity of the stem nearest the gill.
_Apical_, close to the apex.
_Apiculate_, terminating in a small point.
_Appendiculate_, hanging in small fragments.
_Approximate_, of gills which approach the stem but do not reach it.
_Arachnoid_, cobweb-like.
_Arboreal_, _arboricle_, tree-inhabiting.
_Arcuate_, bow-shaped.
_Areolate_, divided into little areas or patches.
_Argillaceous_, clayey, like clay.
_Ascending_, directed upward.
_Asci_, _ascidia_, spore-cases of certain mushrooms.
_Attenuated_, tapering gradually to a point upward or downward.
_Band_, a broad bar of color.
_Banded_, marked with bands.
_Barbed_, furnished with fibrils or hairs.
_Basidia_, cellular processes of certain mushroom-bearing spores.
_Bibliography_, condensed history of the literature of a subject.
_Bifurcated_, divided into two, as in the gills of certain agarics.
_Booted_, applied to the stem of a mushroom when inclosed in a sheath or volva.
_Boss_, a k.n.o.b or short rounded protuberance.
_Bossed_, _bullate_, furnished with a boss or k.n.o.b.
_Branched_, dividing from the sides; also styled furcate and forked.
_Brick_, trade term for a ma.s.s of mushroom sp.a.w.n, in dimensions the size of a brick of masonry.
_Broad_, wide or deep vertically.
_Bulbous_, having the structure of a bulb.
_Caespitose_, growing in tufts.
_Calcareous_, chalky, chalk-like.
_Calyptra_, applied to the portion of volva covering the pileus.
_Campanulate_, bell-shaped.
_Ca.n.a.liculate_, channelled.
_Cancellate_, latticed, marked both longitudinally and transversely.
_Cap_, the expanded, umbrella-like receptacle of the common mushroom.
_Capillitium_, spore-bearing threads, variable in thickness and color, sometimes continuous with the sterile base, sometimes free, dense, and persistent, or lax and evanescent, often branched; found in the Lycoperdons.
_Carious_, decayed.
_Carneous_, fleshy.
_Cartilaginous_, hard and tough.
