Страница - 45Страница - 47CONTINUATION OF GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN DESCRIBING MUSHROOMS.
- 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.
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