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

Band, a broad bar of color.

Banded, marked with bands.

Barbed (barba, beard), furnished with barbs, fibrils or hairs.

Base (bassus, low, short, thick), the extremity opposite to the apex; the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment; applied to lamellæ; (a) the line of attachment to the pileus (as connected by veins at the base); (b) sometimes used to define the end attached to the stipe (broad or reticulate at the base).

Basid´iogenet´ic (Gr—a base + genesis), produced upon a basidium.

Basid´iomyce´tes (basidium + Gr—a mushroom), group of fungi which has its spores produced upon basidia.

Basid´iophore (basidium + Gr—to bear), a sporophore bearing basidia.

Basid´iospore (basidium + Gr—spora, spore; seed), spore acrogenously abjointed upon a basidium.

Basid´ium (pl. Basid´ia), mother cells in the hymenium of basidiomycetes formed on the end of a hyphal branch and abstricting spores; the spores are generally four in number, each on a sterigma, but sometimes more, sometimes fewer, and sometimes sessile. See [Auto-basidium] and [Proto-basidium].

Basip´etal (basis, a base, + petere, seek, + al), in the direction of the base.