Part 10

Branched, dividing from the sides; also styled furcate and forked.

Brick, trade term for a mass of mushroom spawn, in dimensions the size of a brick of masonry.

Broad, wide or deep vertically.

Bulbous, having the structure of a bulb.

Caespitose, growing in tufts.

Calcareous, chalky, chalk-like.

Calyptra, applied to the portion of volva covering the pileus.

Campanulate, bell-shaped.

Canaliculate, channelled.

Cancellate, latticed, marked both longitudinally and transversely.

Cap, the expanded, umbrella-like receptacle of the common mushroom.

Capillitium, spore-bearing threads, variable in thickness and color, sometimes continuous with the sterile base, sometimes free, dense, and persistent, or lax and evanescent, often branched; found in the Lycoperdons.

Carious, decayed.

Carneous, fleshy.

Cartilaginous, hard and tough.

Castaneous, chestnut color.

Ceraceous, wax-like.

Channelled, hollowed out like a gutter.

Chlorosis, loss of color.

Cilia, marginal hair-like processes.

Ciliate, fringed with hair-like processes.

Cinerous, ash-colored.

Circinate, rounded.

Clathrate, latticed.

Clavate, club-shaped, gradually thickened upward.

Close, packed closely side by side; also styled crowded.

Columella, a sterile tissue rising column-like in the midst of the capillitium, serving as a point of insertion for the threads which connect it with the peridium in the form of a net-work.

Concentric, having a common center, as a series of rings one within another.