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

Curt (curtus, clipped, broken, shortened), short.

Cur´tain (cortina, a small croft, screen, etc.), same as cortina.

Cus´pidate (cuspidatus, pp. cuspidare, < cuspis, a point, spear), with a sharp spear-like point.

Cu´ticle (cuticula, dim. of cutis, the skin), a distinct skin-like layer; cutis, cuticle, pellicle and epidermis have been used indiscriminately to describe the separable or inseparable skin-like layer sometimes present on the outer surface of the pileus and stem; of these terms, cuticle is used most commonly.

Cu´tis. See [Cuticle].

Cya´neous (cyaneus, dark blue), bright blue; azure; lapis-lazuli blue.

Cyano´sis (Gr—dark-blue, + osis), in pathology a blue or more or less livid color of the surface of the body, due to imperfect circulation and oxygenation of the blood.

Cy´athiform (cyathus, a cup; forma, form), cup-shaped, shape of a drinking glass slightly widened at the top.

Cylin´dric, Cylin´drical (cylindricus, cylinder), cylinder-shaped; applied to a branch or stem having the same or nearly the same diameter throughout, and its cross-section circular.

Cym´bæform, Cym´biform (cymba, a boat, + forma, shape), boat-shape.