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Stuffed, stem filled with different material from the walls.
Sulcate, furrowed.
Tawny, nearly the color of tanned leather.
Terete, top-shaped.
Tesselated, arranged in small squares.
Tomentose, downy, with short hairs.
Trama, the substance between the plates of gills.
Truncate, cut squarely off.
Tubercle, a small wart-like excrescence.
Turbinate, top-shaped.
Umbillicate, having a central depression.
Umbo, the boss of a shield, applied to the central elevation of cap.
Umbonate, having a central boss-like elevation.
Uncinate, hooked.
Undulate, wavy.
v.a.g.i.n.ate, sheathed.
Veil, a partial covering of stem or margin of pileus.
Veliform, a thin veil-like covering.
Venate or veined, intersected by swollen wrinkles below and on the sides.
Ventricose, swollen in the middle.
Vernicose, shining as if varnished.
Verrucose, covered with warts.
Villose, villous, covered with long, weak hairs.
Viscid, covered with a shiny liquid which adheres to the fingers; sticky.
Viscous, gluey.
Volute, rolled up in any direction.
Volva, a universal veil.
Zoned, zonate, marked with concentric bands of color.
AUTHORITIES.
It is customary to write, after the name of the plant, the name, or an abbreviation of it, of the person who gave the name. Below will be found a brief history and the name in full of each abbreviation.
Atk. Prof. Geo. F. Atkinson, at the head of the Botanical Department of Cornell University and an authority on Mycology.
Afz. Adam Afzelius, a Swedish Botanist, 1750-1836; a pupil of Linnaeus.
Ban. Miss Banning of Maryland, a student of Mycology.
Batsch Augustus Batsch, a German Botanist and Mycologist, 1761-1802.
Berk. Rev. J. M. Berkeley, a leading Mycologist of England.
Bolt. James Bolton, a prominent Botanist of Halifax.
Bosc. Louis Bosc, an early American Botanist, 1759-1828.
Barl. J. B. Barla, a French Mycologist.
Bull. Pierre Bulliard, one of the first French Mycologists, 1742-1790.
Curt. Rev. M. A. Curtise, State Botanist of North Carolina.
D. C. Augustin P. de Candolle, a Swiss Botanist, 1778-1841.
Dill. Johann Jakob Dillenius, an eminent German Botanist.
Ellis J. B. Ellis, Newfield, New Jersey, an eminent Mycologist.
Fr. Elias Magnus Fries (p.r.o.n. Freece), a Swedish Botanist and Mycologist, 1794-1878.
