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

Can´cellate (cancellatus, pp. of cancellare, make like or provide with a lattice), latticed, marked both longitudinally and transversely with an open network.

Can´didous (candidus), shining white.

Canes´cent (canescen(t-)s, pp. of canescere, < canus, white or hoary), having whitish, grayish or hoary pubescence.

Cap, pileus; the expanded, umbrella-like receptacle of the common mushroom.

Cap´illary (capillaris, pertaining to the hair, < capillus, the hair), pertaining to or resembling hair.

Capil´liform (capillus, hair, + forma, form), in the shape or form of a hair.

Capillit´ium (capillus, hair), spore-bearing threads, filling as a packing material the fruiting part of certain fungi, variable in thickness and color, sometimes continuous with the sterile base, sometimes free, dense, persistent or lax and evanescent, often branched; found in the Lycoperdons.

Cap´itate (capitatus, having a head, < caput, head), having a head, or the form of a head.

Capit´ulum (capitulum, a small head, < caput, head), a small head.

Cap´sule (capsula, a small box or chest, dim. of capsa, a box), an enclosing envelope usually thin and membranous.