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 Julaceous. resembling a slender glossy worm.

Lamina. the blade of the leaf.

Lid. the cover to the mouth of caps.

Ligulate. strap-shaped.

Lingulate. tongue-shaped.

Mitriform (of calyp.) mitre-shaped, not split up the side.

Monoicous. barren and fertile fl. on same plant, but not on same receptacle.

Mucro. a short terminal point.

Mucronate. terminated with a mucro.

Muriculate. roughened with sharpish prominences.

Muticous. without a point.

Ochrea. the filmy sheath surrounding base of seta.

Pagina. the blade of the leaf apart from the nerve.

Panduriform. fiddle-shaped.

Papillose. roughened with blunt roundish prominences.

Percurrent. extending the entire length.

Perichætium. the leafy involucre at base of seta, surrounding the vaginula in fertile fl.

Perigonium. the leaves surrounding the barren fl.

Peristome. the teeth at mouth of caps. covered by the lid before it falls.

Plicate. furrowed.

Præmorse. ending suddenly, as if bitten off.

Pyriform. pear-shaped.

Quadrate. square.

Radicles, small rooting fibres.

Radiculose. covered with radicles.

Rhizome. a creeping subterranean stem.

Rhomboid (rhombus). an oblique square.

Rostellate. with a very short beak.

Rostrate. with a longer beak.