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

Contin´uous (continuus, joined, < continere, hold together), without a break; applied to spores or hyphæ that have no septa.

Contor´ted (contortus, pp. of contorquere, twist, < com, together; torquere, twist), distorted, twisted, crooked or deformed.

Con´vex (convexus, vaulted, arched, convex, concave), elevated and regularly rounded; forming the segment of a sphere or nearly so.

Convex´o-Plane, between convex and flat.

Con´volute (convolutus, pp. of convolvere, roll together), covered with irregular convexities and depressions resembling the convolutions of the brain.

Cor´date (cordatus, heart-shaped), heart-shaped.

Coria´ceous (coriaceus, < corium, leather), of a leathery texture.

Cor´neous (corneus, horny), of a horny texture.

Cor´rugated (corrugatus, pp. corrugare, < con, together, + rugare, to wrinkle), wrinkled; contracted; puckered; having a wrinkled appearance.

Cor´tex (cortex, cork), literally bark; a covering of cells enclosing the axis; cortical layer; the outer rind-like layer or layers of some fungus bodies.