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Labiate , aperture with distinct, lip-like borders.

Laccate , varnished, or covered witha coat like sealing-wax.

Lacunose , having little cavities, orpitted.

Linguceform, tongue-shaped.

Lophiostomce , aperture crested.

Marginate , having a distinct, definiteborder.

Matrix, anything on which a Fungusgrows.

Monitiform , necklace-like.

MucedinouSy like a Mould.

Mycelioid , like a mycelium.

Mycelium , spawn, which may beeither filamentous or vesicular.

Neck, spoken of perithecia which re-semble an india-rubber bottle witha distinct neck.

Nucleus , the hymenium of perithecia ,which is generally more or lessgelatinous.

OhtectSy covered by the cuticle.

Obturates, literally bunged up, ap-plied to certain Sphcerice.

Obvallatce , literally walled up, ap-plied to certain Spharue.

Ostiolum , mouth of perithecium, likethe mouth of a bottle.

Pallid , pale, but undecided in colour.

Papillate , covered with little pap-like elevations, or ending in apapilla.

Papyraceous, thin, like paper.

Patellceform , saucer-shaped.

Pendulous , hanging down like theflower of a foxglove.

Peridium , general covering, as in aPuff-ball.

Peridiola , used when a number ofsmaller peridia are contained with-in the general envelope.

Peronate , used when the stem has adistinct, stocking-like coat.

Perithecia , the bottle-like, fruit-bear-ing bodies in Sphceriacei , whichmay be naked, sunk in a stroma,or covered by a portion of thematrix.

Pertusas , pierced at the apex of theperithecium by the separation ofthe ostiolum.

Pileoli, secondary pilei.

Pileusy the hat-shaped receptacle inMushrooms, etc.

Pruinose , frosted, or covered withbloom like a plum.

Pulvinatce , cushion-shaped.

RamealeSy growing on twigs.

Remote , spoken of gills which arefree, and leave a considerable spacebetween them and the stem.

Reniform , kidney-shaped.

Resupinate, spread over the matrix,and having the hymenium up-wards, and not beneath, as in theMushroom.

Rhizomorphoidy like roots.

Rimose, cracked.

Ring , part of the veil adhering tothe stem, and forming a ring orcollar.

Rivulose, marked with lines like therivers in a map.

Rostellat<Ey having a little, elongatedneck, extending beyond the sur-face of the matrix.

Rostrate , having a long, free neck.

Scrobiculate , marked with little pits.

Scutellceformy shield-like.

Septate , having partitions,

Sinuatedy when the gills are suddenlywaved just before they reach thestem.

Spathulate , shaped like a spatula.