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

Deflexed´ (deflexus, pp. deflectere, turn aside), bent or turned down.

Dehis´cence (dehiscen(t-)s, dehiscent), the spontaneous opening of a peridium at maturity to discharge the spores.

Dehis´cent (dehiscere, gape, open), a closed organ opening of itself at maturity or when it has attained a certain development.

Deliques´cent (deliquescere, melt away), relating to mushrooms which at maturity become liquid or melt down.

Delimita´tion (delimitare, mark out the limits, < de + limitare, limit, bound), the marking, fixing or prescribing the limits or boundaries.

Den´droid, Den´driform (Gr—a tree, + L.—forma, form), tree-shaped.

Den´tate (dentatus, tooth), toothed with a concave serrature.

Dentic´ulate (denticulatus, < denticulus, a small tooth), finely dentate.

Denu´date (denudatus, pp. of denudare, make bare, strip), naked; exposed, not immersed.

Depressed´ (depressus, pp. of deprimere, < de, down, + premere, press), as if pressed down or flattened; sunk below the level of the surrounding margin.