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Badious, bay, chestnut-color, or reddish-brown.
Basidium (pl. basidia), an enlarged cell on which spores are borne.
Basidiomycetes, the group of fungi that have spores borne on a basidium.
Bifid, cleft or divided into two parts.
Booted, applied to the stem of mushrooms when inclosed in a volva.
Boss, a k.n.o.b or short rounded protuberance.
Bossed, furnished with a boss or k.n.o.b, bulbate.
Byssus, a fine filamentous ma.s.s.
Caespitose, growing in tufts.
Calyptra, applied to the portion of volva covering the pileus.
Campanulate, bell-shaped.
Cap, the expanded, umbrella-like receptacle of a common mushroom.
Capillitium, spore-bearing threads, often much branched, found in puffb.a.l.l.s.
Carnose, flesh-color.
Cartilaginous, hard and tough.
Castaneous, chestnut-color.
Ceraceous, wax-like.
Cerebriform, brain-shaped.
Cespitose, growing in tufts.
Cilia, marginal hair-like processes.
Ciliate, fringed with hair-like processes.
Cinereous, light bluish gray or ash gray.
Circ.u.mscissile, breaking at or near the middle on equatorial line.
Circinate, rounded.
Clavate, club-shaped, gradually thickened upward.
Columella, a sterile tissue rising column-like in the midst of the Capillitium.
Concrete, grown together.
Continuous, without a break, one part running into another.
Cordate, heart-shaped.
Coriaceous, of a leathery or a cork-like texture.
Cortex, outer or rind-like layer.
Cortina, the web-like veil of the genus Cortinarius.
Cortinate, with a cortina.
Costate, with a ridge or ridges.
Crenate, notched, indented or escalloped at the edge.
Cryptogamia, applied to the division of non-flowering plants.
Cyathiform, cup-shaped.
Cyst, a bladder-like cell or cavity.
Cystidium (pl. cystidia), sterile cells of the hymenium, bladder-like.
Deciduous, of leaves falling off.
Decurrent, as when the gills of a mushroom are prolonged down the stem.
Dehiscent, a closed organ opening of itself at maturity.
Deliquescent, melting down, becoming liquid.
Dendroid, shaped like a tree.
Dentate, toothed.
Denticulate, with small teeth.
Dichotomous, paired, regularly forked.
Dimidiate, halved, applied to gills not entire.
