Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi / How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

by Charles McIlvaine; Robert K. Macadam

Ach´roous (Gr—priv. + Gr—color), colorless, achromatic.

Acic´ula (pl. Aciculæ)(a needle, a small pin, dim. of acus, a needle), a needle-shaped spine, prickle or other body.

Acic´ular, Acic´ulate, Ac´iform (acicula, a small pin or needle), needle-shaped, having a sharp point like a needle, as pine leaves.

Ac´rogen (Gr—at the top, + Gr—born, produced), a cryptogam which increases by development [of an apical cell] at the summit of an axis, having a true stem, leaf-like appendages, etc., as ferns, mosses, etc.

Acrog´enous (as acrogen + ous), (a) produced at the apex, as some spores from the apex of a hyphal branch; (b) of the nature of or pertaining to acrogens.

Acrop´etal (Gr—the top, + L.—petere, seek), developing from below upward, or from the base toward the apex.

Acu´leate, Acu´leated (aculeatus, furnished with prickles or stings), slender-pointed.

Acu´leus (pl. Acu´lei) (a sting, prickle, spine, dim. of acus, a needle), a prickle.

Acu´minate (acumen, a point or extremity), terminating in a long drawn point.

Acute´ (acutus, sharp), sharp, applied to gills having sharp edges or pointed at either end.