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

As´ci (Gr—a leathern bag, bladder), spore cases of certain mushrooms, in which a definite number of spores are enclosed in a sac.

Ascif´erous, Ascoph´orous (ascus + ferre, bear), ascus-bearing.

Ascig´erous (ascus + gerere, bear), bearing asci.

As´cocarp (Gr—a bag, + a fruit), in Ascomycetes, sporocarp producing asci and ascospores.

Ascog´enous (Gr—a bag, + producing), producing asci.

Ascomyce´tes (Gr—a bag, + Gr—a mushroom), group of fungi in which the spores are produced within little sack-like cells, called asci.

Ascomyce´tous, of or pertaining to the ascomycetes.

As’cophore (Gr—bearing wine-skins; Gr—a bag), sporophore bearing an ascus or asci.

Ascoph´orous, bearing an ascus or asci.

As´cospores (Gr—a bag, + Gr—seed), one of a number of spores formed within an ascus.