Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous Part 7

_Emarginate_, applied to gills which are notched or scooped out suddenly before they reach the stem.

_Embryo_, the mushroom before leaving its volva or egg stage; also any early stage of mushrooms which may have no volva.

_Entire_, the edge quite devoid of serrature or notch.

_Epidermis_, the external or outer layer of the plant.

_Epiphytal_, growing upon another plant.

_Equal_, all gills of the same, or nearly the same length from back to front.

_Eroded_, the edge ragged, as if torn.

_Etiolated_, whitened, bleached.

_Even_, distinguished from smooth: a surface quite plane as contrasted with one which is striate, pitted, etc.

_Excentric_, out of center. The stems of some mushrooms are always excentric.

_Exotic_, foreign.

_Family_, a systematic group in scientific cla.s.sification embracing a greater or less number of genera which agree in certain characters not shared by others of the same order.

_Farinaceous_, mealy.

_Farinose_, covered with a white, mealy powder.

_Fascia_, a band or bar.

_Fasciate_, zoned with bands.

_Fasciculate_, growing in small bundles.

_Fastigiate_, bundled together like a sheath.

_Favose_, honeycombed.

_Ferruginous_, rust-colored.

_Fibrillose_, clothed with small fibers.

_Fibrous_, composed of fibers.

_Filiform_, thread-like.

_Fimbriated_, fringed.

_Fissile_, capable of being split.

_Fistular_, _fistulose_, tubular.

_Flabelliform_, fan-shaped.

_Flavescent_, yellowish, or turning yellow.

_Flexuose_, wavy.

_Flocci_, threads as of mold.

_Floccose_, downy.

_Flocculose_, covered with flocci.

_Foveolate_, pitted.

_Free_, in relation to the gills of mushrooms reaching the stem but not attached to it.

_Fringe_, a lacerated marginal membrane.

_Fructification_, reproducing power of a plant.

_Fugacious_, disappearing rapidly.

_Furcate_, forked.

_Fuliginous_, blackish or sooty.

_Fulvous_, tawny; a rather indefinite brownish yellow.

_Furfuraceous_, with branny scales or scurf.

_Fuscous_, brownish, but dingy; not pure.

_Fusiform_, spindle-shaped.

_Genera_, plural of genus.

_Generic_, pertaining to a genus.

_Genus_, a group of species having one or more characteristics in common; the union of several genera presenting the same features const.i.tutes a tribe.

_Gibbous_, in the form of a swelling; of a pileus which is more convex or tumid on one side than the other.

_Gills_, vertical plates radiating from the stem on the under surface of the mushroom cap.

_Glabrous_, smooth.