#murshrooms of the northeastern united states and eastern canada

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Vocabulary (pt.dcliii)

Words taken from Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada by Timothy J. Baroni:

dextrinoid (adj.) mycology. applied to a mushroom that turns reddish-brown upon application of Melzer’s reagent.

circumscissile (adj.) dehiscing by fissure around the capsule of the fruit.

sessile (adj.) (of a flower, leaf, eye, etc.) attached directly by its base without a stalk or peduncle.

universal veil (n.) a temporary membranous tissue that fully envelops immature fruiting bodies of certain gilled mushrooms.

lamella (n.) a thin layer, membrane, scale, or plate-like tissue or part.

lamellula (n.) mycology. a short mushroom gill that does not extend all the way from the edge of the cap to the stem.

gravitropism (n.) a coordinated process of differential growth by a plant or fungus in response to gravity pulling on it. 

sterigmata (n.) botany. (in some fungi) a spore-bearing projection from a cell.

appendiculate (adj.) mycology. having partial veil remnants hanging along the cap margin.

adnate (adj.) botany. joined by having grown together.