The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise / Its Habitat and its Time of Growth
Miron Elisha Hard
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  • Gasteromyces, Basidiomycetes, in which the hymenium is inclosed.
  • 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.