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

Cryp´togam (Gr—hidden, + marriage), a plant of the order Cryptogamia.

Cryptoga´mia (Gr—hidden, + marriage), flowerless plants propagated by spores.

Cryptog´amy (Gr—hidden, + marriage), obscure fructification as in plants of the class Cryptogamia.

Culm (culmus, a stalk), the stem of grasses.

Cu´neate, Cune´iform (cuneatus, pp. of cuneare, wedge, make wedge-shaped, < cuneus, a wedge), wedge-shaped.

Cup (cupa, a tub, cask, vat), the concave fruiting body of angiocarpous lichens and discomycetous fungi; the peridium of a clustering fungus. See Apothecium.

Cu´preous (cupreus, of copper, < cuprum, copper), copper-colored.

Cu´pular, Cu´pulate (a little cup, dim. of cupa, a cup), cup-shaped.

Cu´pule, Cu´pula (a little cup, dim. of cupa, a cup), a receptacle shaped like a little cup, as in Peziza.

Curled, same as Crisp.