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

Agar´icioid, of the nature of an agaric; mushroom-like.

Agglom´erate (agglomeratus, pp. of agglomerare, adglomerare, wind into a ball, < ad, to, + glomerare, wind into a ball), (a) clustered densely, but not connected together; (b) gathered into a rounded mass or into a compacted heap or pile.

Agglu´tinated (agglutinatus, pp. adglutinare, paste to), glued to a surface; grown together fast; applied to fungi that are firmly attached to matrix.

Ag´gregate, Ag´gregated (aggregatus, pp. adgregare, lead to a flock; add to), collected together but not cohering.

Albu´minoid (albumen + oid), an organic substance containing nitrogen in its composition, as proteids.

Allan´toid (Gr—a sausage, + Gr—form), sausage-shaped; narrowly oblong.

Allia´ceous (allium, garlic, + aceous), having the odor of onions.

Aluta´ceous (alutacius, < aluta, soft leather), having the quality or color of tanned leather; leathery.

Alveo´late (alveolatus, hollowed out, < alveolus, a small hollow), with small depressions like a shallow honeycomb, pitted.

Amor´phous (Gr—without form, shapeless, misshapen), without definite form, structure or position.