A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Gleba,-ae (s.f.I), abl. sg. gleba, also glaeba,-ae (s.f.I), abl. sg. glaeba [> L. glaeba,-ae (s.f.I): a small piece or lump of earth, a clod; generally, land, soil; “of other things, a piece, lump, mass” (Lewis & Short)]; cf.

Gk. bOlos, [h]e, a feminine noun = Latin gleba, a clod of earth, a piece of land, ground soil; generaly a lump or mass of anything; see lump; see mass; see peridiole, peridium; cf. moles (s.f.III); see mass (Eng.noun).

Glebe (Eng.noun): “(archaic) earth, land, soil, sod: a plot of cultivated land; glebe land: the land belonging or yielding revenue to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice; a parsonage with or without the land appurtenant” (WIII). Gleby (Eng.adj.): (archaic) of soil: rich, fertile; abounding in rich soil” (WIII).

NOTE: = Gk. bOlos, (h)e [note omega], a feminine noun in Greek = Latin gleba, a clod of earth, a piece of land, ground soil; generaly a lump or mass of anything; cf. bolus (Eng. noun): a bolus: “a rounded mass, such as a large pill; a soft mass of chewed food” (WIII); see Boletus,-i (s.m.II); see bolus.

Clod, a small piece or lump of earth.

Lump: a compact mass of a substance, especially one without a definite or regular shape.

1. a lump or clod of earth; glebe (Eng. noun); usually in the dim. = glebula,-ae (s.f.I), q.v.;

- [alga; Conferva] Byssus sericea fulva perelegans, tenuissima & ramossisima, rimis terrae innascens & glebas circumvestiens (Dill.), Byssus silky, fulvous, very elegant, very thin and heavily branched, springing up on the cracks and covering over clumps of earth.

- [moss] si tamen cum ipsa gleba, quae eos protulit transportentur et solo idoneo umbra et humiditate fruenti committantur iterum vigere ramosque novos edere possunt (Brid.), yet if they might be removed with the very clod which produced them, and if united again with their proper soil and enjoying [their proper] shade and humidity, they are able to flourish again and give forth new branches.

- [Boletus esculentus; fungus] Вoletus [Gk.] bOlitEs dicitur a voce Graeca bOlos, idеst gleba, ob figuram inaequalem, et superficiem perforatam, ut in glebis observatur (Mich.), Boletus is called bOlitEs, from the Greek word bOlos, that is, ‘gleba,’ due to the irregular shape, and the perforated surface, as observed in glebes [i.e. clods of earth or soil].

- [Lichenoides] figuram, quam olim feci, cum gleba, cui innascebatur, exhibere volui, ut alii observare & de hac specie judicare possint. (Dill.), once I made a figure [i.e. drawing] which, with the clump on which it was growing, I wanted to show, or others to observe and regarding which species [i.e. kind of thing] they might be able to determine.

2. a lump, a piece of any substance; the result of a reduction process (as of boiling or drying out):

- [fungi] exempla saepe vernalia vidimus gelatina, nunc fluxili, nunc in glebam ceream coagulata(S&A), we have often seen vernal [i.e. spring-time] specimens with a gelatine, sometimes fluxile [i.e. fluid, capable of flowing], sometimes coagulated into a waxen lump.

- Hic igitur fructus velut oliva exprimitur et succus illius in sole siccatur et in glebam redigitur (Galen in Everett), this fruit, then, is pressed like an olive and its juice is dried in the sun and [i.e. until] it is rendered into a lump [i.e. a gel].

3. LICHEN: “a rounded elevation on the thallus of Lichens” (Jackson); see colliculosus,-a,-um (adj.A), colliculatus,-a,-um (adj.A); see colliculus,-i (s.m.II); see glebulosus,-a,-um (adj.A), grumulosus,-a,-um (adj.A), grumulatus,-a,-um (adj.A); see grumulus,-i (s.m.II).

4. FUNGI: see sporangium;

- spore or sporing mass = gleba,-ae (s.f.I).

- the sporing or sporogenous tissue in an angiocarpous fruit body; “the peridium or the fleshy part of certain Fungals” = glebula,-ae (s.f.I), q.v. (Lindley); “the chambered sporogenous tissue within a sporophore of Phalloideae” (Jackson); “the sporangia of certain Fungi, as Nidularia” (Jackson); the spore-mass inside of a puffball; sporing tissue in an angiocarpous fruit body, in Gasteromycetes and Tuberales (Ainsworth & Bisby); (fungi) “in the Gasteromycetes and Tuberales, the tissue enclosed within the peridium, composed of tramal plates lined with the hymenium; often applied to the spore mass after the tramal plates have become broken up” (S&D); “the sporogenous tissue forming the central mass of the sporophore in some basidiomycetes (as the puffballs, stinkhorns” (WIII);

- gleba pluricellulosa a peridio non separabilis candida immutabilis lactiflua demum farinacea, gleba (sporing tissue) many-celled from the peridium not separable pure white unchanging milky at length floury (Stearn).

Angiocarpia,-ae (s.f.I): angiocarpy, a type of development of a fungal fruit body in which the sporebearing tissue is enclosed for part of the period.

The enclosing membrane or wall of the sporogenous mass is the peridium, q.v.

GLEBA DEVELOPMENT:

Evolutio,-onis (s.f.III) coralloidea, abl. sg. evolutione coralloidea: (fungi) coralloid development, “in the Gasteromycetes, according to Cunningham (1942), that development in which the formation of the gleba is confined to the peripheral zone of the primordium” (S&D); see also ‘lacunar,’ ‘multipileate’ and pileate’ development.

Evolutio,-onis (s.f.III) lacunaris, abl. sg. evolutione lacunari: (in fungi) lacunar development “in the Gasteromycetes, according to Cunningham (1942), that type of development in which gleba formation commmences in cavities formed schizogenously within the primordium of the peridium; see also ‘coralloid’, ‘pileate’, and ‘multipileate development” (S&D) TO Do

Evolutio,-onis (s.f.III) multipileata, abl. sg. evolutione multipileata: (fungi) “multipileate development. “in the Gasteromycetes, according to Cunningham (1942), that type in which gleba formation commences at several independent points in the primordium and proceeds as in the pileate type; see also ‘lacunar,’ coralloid,’ and ‘pileate’ development (S&D).

Evolutio,-onis (s.f.III) pileata, abl. sg. evolutione pileata: (fungi) pileate development: “in the Gasteromycetes, according to Cunningham (1942), that type in which the gleba formation commences in a hollow ring at the apex of the stipe; see also ‘lacunar,’ ‘coralloid,’ and ‘multipileate’ development (S&D) [> L. pileatus, possessing a cap or pileus].

Peridiole, (in fungi) “(esp. of Nidulariaceae), a division of the gleba having a separate wall, frequently acting as a unit for distribution” (Ainsworth & Bisby); (in fungi) “a small seedlike or egglike segregation of the gleba with a distinct wall, acting as a unit for distribution, as in the Nidulariaceae” (S&D): peridiolum,-i (s.n.II), q.v., abl.sg. peridiolo.

Receptaculum,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. receptaculo: receptacle, q.v.; (fungi) “in the phalloids, the stalk and pileus or the clathrate body which supports the gleba” (S&D).

NOTE: (in fungi): Gleba chamber: “a lens-shaped, gleba-bearing structure in a nidulariaceous fruit body (Lohwag, 1941); apparently the same as ‘peridiole’” (S&D).