BRITISH LICHENS

GLOSSARY
ABRADED (Lat abrado, to rub away), rubbed or scraped off.
ACERVULATE (Lat. acervlUI, a heap), heaped Up-ACERVULI.
ACICULAR (Lat. acus, a needle), slender, needle·shaped.
ACUMINATE (Lat. acumen, a point), coming gradually to a point.
ADNATE (Lat. adnascor, to grow to), adhering to anything.
ADPRESSED (Lat. ad, to, pre88lU1, kept under), lying flat.
ADSPERSED (Lat. adspersu8), scattered.
,ERUGINOSE (Lat mrugo, the rust of brass), blue.green colour of verdigris.
AFFIXED, fixed to or upon.
AGGLUTINATE (Lat. agglutino, to glue on to), glued together.
AGGREGATE (Lat. augregatlUl, assembled), crowdcd, not confluent
ALEcTomoID, like the genus Alectona.
ALGOID, similar to algro.
AMPHITlIECImr (Gr. amphi, around, theke, a case), the thallino margin of
the apothecium, cl. thalloid exciple.
AMYLACEOUS (Gr. amylon, fine flour), starchy.
ANAPIIYSES (Gr ana, up, phusis, growth), peculiar stmigmatoid filamcnts
ill the apothecium of li.'phebew.
ApICULATE (Lat. apex, the end or point), terminating in a smll,!l point.
ApICULUS (Lat , a little point), a sharp, short point.
ApOTHECIUM (Gr. apo, up, theke, a case) open disc·shaped fructification.
ApPENDICULATE (Lat ), With small appendages
ApPLANATE (Lat. ad, to, planatu8, made flat), flattened or horizontally
expanded.
ApPRESSED, cl. adpressed.
ARACHNOID (Gr. arachne, a spider), like a spIder's web.
ARCUATE (Lat arcus, a bow), bent hke a bow, curved.
ARDELLlE (Gr. ardo, to sprinkle), spot-hke apothecia of Arthoniac(m.
AREOLA (Lat. area, a space), a small space marked out on the surface of
crustaceous hchcns.
ARTIIONIOID, applied to apothecia like those of the genus Arthonia.
ARTlInOSTERIGMA (Gr arthron, a Joint, sterigma, a prop), soptate sterigmata.
ARTICULATE (Lat. artIculus, a joint), septate.
Ascus (Gr asko8, a wine skID), an enlarged cell in which the spores alO
developed, usually the terminal end of a hypha.
ASCYPHOUS (Gr a, WIthout, skupho8, a cup), without scyphi, q t'.
ASPERSED, cl adspersed.
AXIL (Lat. aXIlla, the arm-pit), the angle bctween the axis and any organ
ansing from it.
AXIS (Lat., an axle), the central strand of tissue or main stalk lOund which
the organs are developed.
BACILLAR (Lat. bacillum, a staff), rod- or club-shaped.
BADIO-, BADIOUS (Lat.), chestnut-bro\m.
BlEOMYCETOID, like the genus Bwomyces.
BIATORINE, with soft or waxy apothcoia, oftcn brightly coloured, without
a thalline margin, as in BlUtora.
BIFID (Lat. bis, twice, {indo, fldi, findere, to cut), divided in two.
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