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introduction to botany. 225
Mushrooms,
Stem, Stipes. The round footstalk that supports the
cap of pileiferous mushrooms. Agaricus.
Cap, Pileiis. An expansion of the stem, usually hemispherical
or conical. Agaricus.
Volva. A membranaceous envelope surrounding the
whole mushroom while quite young, or in the egg-state.
Agaricus.
Collar, AnnuliLS. A membranaceous envelope covering
the cap while the plant is young, afterwards ruptured and
remaining round the stipes like a collar, either fixed,
Boletus annulatus ; or moveable, Agaricus procerus.
Curtain, Cortina. A kind of thready collar, or network,
which, after the rupture of it by the growth of the plant,
remains attached to the edge of the cap, Agaricus arane-
osus, Agarici cortinarii.
Hymeniunif Memhranafriictificans. The part of the pileus
that contains the sporse or gongyles.
Gills, LamellcE, Fena. Thin expansions of the hymenium,
either single, in pairs, or other determined number;
sometimes distinct, sometimes anastomosing together.
Agaricus, Merulius.
Tubes, Tubi. Tubular expansions of the hymenium.
Boletus, Poria.
Capsule, Peridium, Involucrum. A dry, membranaceous
hollow vessel, filled with sporae or gongyles. Lycoperdon.
Perithecium. A hard, hollow receptacle, containing a
gelatinous substance filled with thecae.
Capellitmm. Hairlike fibres, or elateres interwoven
with sporse into a globular or oval form, and contained in
a peridium.
Slime, Latex. A mucilaginous liquid containing the
sporae floating in it. Phallus, Clathrus.
Vesicles, Veskulce. Collections of sporse united together.
Sporidia. Conceptacles containing sporae. Puccinia.
Flocci. Tubular threads intermixed with the sporae.
Cisti. Very small round conceptacles containing sporae,
borne upon small footstalks. Mucor,
Cistophori. The footstalks that support the cisti. Mucor.
Seeds, Sporcp, Spondee. The reproductive corpuscles of
mushrooms.
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