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Resupinate (of the fruit-body), spore-bearing tissue facing outward and attached to support by what would have been the cap had the fungus been a normal agaric.

Ring, a girdling veil on the stem. See p. 267.

Rugulose (of a surface), covered in small wrinkles.

RUST-BROWN, the colour of rusty iron.

Saprophyte (of an organism), using dead material for active growth.

Scurfy (of the cap and stem surfaces), with small irregular loosely attached scales.

Sessile (of the fruit-bodies), lacking a stem.

Septate (of the structural units of the fruit-body), with cross-walls; septum--cross-wall.

Sinuate (of the gills), having a concave indentation of that part of the edge nearest the stem. See Plate 32, p. 111.

SNUFF-BROWN, a dull dark clay-brown said to resemble the colour of snuff.

Spore-print (or deposit), the mass of spores obtained by allowing the fruit-body to discharge its spores at maturity.

Stem (of the fruit-body), that structure which supports the cap (= stipe).

Sterile, a tissue or structure not involved in the reproductive process, or failing to take part.

Sterigma, the point-like structure at the apex of the basidium actually bearing the spores.

Striate (of a surface), having minute furrows or lines.

Subdecurrent (of the gills or the tubes), having the gill-attachment extending slightly down the stem. See p. 267.

TAWNY, sand-coloured.

Tomentose (of the cap and stem surfaces), densely matted and woolly.

Toothed (of the gills or cap-margin), as if with teeth (= dentate).

Trama (of the gills), the tissue between the layers bearing basidia (hymenia).

Umbilicate (of the cap), having a central, small depression. See p. 267.

Umbonate (of the cap), provided with a broad, flattened, raised centre (the umbo).

Uncinate (of the gills), emarginate, but with a long descending decurrent tooth because the cap does not expand. See Plate 14, p. 69.

Veil, a general term for the tissues which protect the whole or part of the developing fruit-body.

Viscid (of the cap or stem), very slippery to the touch.

Volva, a persistent cup-like structure at the base of the stem. See p. 267.

Waxy (of the gills), lustrous because they are thick and watery.

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