Cartilag'inous. Gristly, tough.
Casta'neus. Chestnut color.
Cell. A mass of protoplasm, with or without an enclosing wall.
Chlorophyll. The green coloring-matter contained in plants.
Cla'vate. Club-shaped.
Close. Crowded together--term used in describing gills.
Cohe'rent. Sticking together.
Con'cave. Having a rounded inwardly curved surface.
Concen'tric. With a common centre, as a series of rings, one within the
other.
Con'nate. Growing together from the first.
Constric'ted. Contracted.
Contin'uous. Without interruption.
Convex. Elevated and regularly rounded.
Con'volute. Covered with irregularities on the surface, like the human
brain.
Coria'ceous. Leathery in texture.
Cor'rugated. Wrinkled.
Corti'na. A veil of cobwebby texture. It gives the name to the genus
Cortinarius.
Cre'nate. In wavy scallops.
Cu'ticle. Pellicle, a skin-like layer on the outside surface of the cap
and stem.
Cy'athiform. Cup-shaped.

Decid'uous. Falling off when mature at the end of the season.
Decur'rent. Gills that run down the stem are called decurrent.
Dehis'cence. The opening of a peridium, when ripe, to discharge the
spores.
Deliques'cent. Turning to liquid when mature.
Dichot'omous. Two-forked, regularly dividing by pairs from below upward.
Dimid'iate. Divided into two equal parts, applied to gills that only
reach half-way to the stem, and to the cap when it is semi-circular or
nearly so.
Disc. The central part of the upper surface of the cap.
Distant. Gills when they are far apart.

Emar'ginate. A gill which has a sudden curve in its margin close to the
stem.
Entire. An edge that is straight, has no notch.
Ep'iphytal. Growing on the outside of another plant.
Equal. A stem is equal when it is of uniform thickness, gills when they
are of equal length.
Eccen'tric. A stem which is not in the centre, but is attached to the
cap between the margin and centre.

Fascic'ulate. Growing in clusters.
Ferru'ginous. Color of iron rust.
Fi'brous. Composed of fibres.
Fis'tulose. Tubular, hollow.
Fleshy. Composed of juicy cellular tissue.
Floccose. Woolly, downy.
Free. Gills when not attached to the stem.
Fungus (plural Fungi). A plant that has no chlorophyll, and obtains its
nourishment from dead or living organic matter.
Fus'cous. Dingy dark-brown, or gray color,

Gelat'inous. Of the nature of jelly.
Genus. A number of species that have the same principal characteristics.
Gib'bous. Swollen unequally--applied t