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- Gelatinous, jelly-like.
- Genus, a group of closely related species.
- Gibbous, swollen at one point.
- Gills, plates radiating from the stem on which the basidia are borne.
- Glabrous, smooth.
- Glaucous, with a white bloom.
- Gleba, the spore-bearing tissue, as in puffballs 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 glass.
- Hygrophanous, looking watery when moist and opaque when dry.
- Hygrometric, readily absorbing water.
- Hymenium, the fruit-bearing surface.
- Hymenophore, the portion which bears the hymenium.
- Hypha, one of the elongated cells or threads of the fungus.
- Imbricate, overlapping like shingles.
- 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 (lamellæ), 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 spawn.
- 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.
- Paraphyses, sterile cells found among the reproductive cells of some plants.
- Parasitic, growing on and deriving support from another plant.
- Pectinate, toothed like a comb.
- Peridium, the outer covering of a puffball, simple or double.
- Perithecia, bottle-like receptacles containing asci.
- Peronate, used when the stem has a distinct stocking-like coat.
- Persistent, inclined to adhere firmly.
- Pileate, having a cap or pileus.
- Pileolus (pl. pileoli), a secondary pileus, arising from the primary one.
- Pileus (pileus, a hat), the cap-like head of a fungus.
- Pilose, covered with hairs, furry.
- Pore, the opening of the tubes of a polyporus.
- Pruinose, covered with a frost-like bloom.
- Pubescent, downy.
- Pulverulent, covered with dust.
- Pulvinate, cushion-shaped.
- Putrescent, soon decaying.
- Punctate, dotted with points.
- Reflexed, bent backwards.
- Reniform, kidney-shaped.
- Repand, bent or turned up or back.
- Resupinate, attached to the matrix by the back.
- Reticulate, marked with cross-lines, like the meshes of a net.
- Revolute, rolled backward or upward.
- Rimose, cracked or full of clefts.
- Rimulose, covered with small cracks.
- Ring, a part of the veil adhering to the stem of Agarics.
- Rubescent, tending to a red-color.
- Rubiginous, rust-color.
- Rufescent, reddish in color.
- Rugose, wrinkled.
- Rufous, brownish-red.
- Sapid, agreeable to the taste.
- Saprophyte, a plant that lives on decaying animal or vegetable matter.
- Scrobiculate, marked with little pits or depressions.
- Serrate, saw-toothed.
- Sinuate, wavy margin of gills or sinus where they reach the stem.
- Spathulate, in the form of a spathula.
- Spawn, the popular name for mycelium, used in growing mushrooms.
- Spores, the reproductive bodies of mushrooms.
- Sporophore, name given to the basidia.
- Squamose, having scales.
- Squamulose, covered with small scales.
- Squarrose, rough with scales.
- Stigmata, the slender supports of the spores.
- Stipitate, having a stem.
- Striate, streaked with lines.
- Strigose, covered with lines sharp and rigid.
- Strobiliform, pineapple-shaped.
- Stuffed, stem filled with different material from the walls.
- Sulcate, furrowed.