The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Part 116

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.