, soon decaying.

Punctate, dotted with points.

Reflexed, bent backwards.

Reniform, kidney-shaped.

Repand, bent or turned up or back.

Resupinate, attached to the matrix by the back.

Reticulate, marked with cross-lines, like the meshes of a net.

Revolute, rolled backward or upward.

Rimose, cracked or full of clefts.

Rimulose, covered with small cracks.

Ring, a part of the veil adhering to the stem of Agarics.

Rubescent, tending to a red-color.

Rubiginous, rust-color.

Rufescent, reddish in color.

Rugose, wrinkled.

Rufous, brownish-red.

Sapid, agreeable to the taste.

Saprophyte, a plant that lives on decaying animal or vegetable matter.

Scrobiculate, marked with little pits or depressions.

Serrate, saw-toothed.

Sinuate, wavy margin of gills or sinus where they reach the stem.

Spathulate, in the form of a spathula.

Spawn, the popular name for mycelium, used in growing mushrooms.

Spores, the reproductive bodies of mushrooms.

Sporophore, name given to the basidia.

Squamose, having scales.

Squamulose, covered with small scales.

Squarrose, rough with scales.

Stigmata, the slender supports of the spores.

Stipitate, having a stem.

Striate, streaked with lines.

Strigose, covered with lines sharp and rigid.

Strobiliform, pineapple-shaped.

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.

Vaginate, 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;