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

Disc, Disk (discus, a disk, trencher), (a) any flat circular disk-like growth; (b) the central portion of the upper surface of a pileus; the cup-shaped or otherwise variously shaped hymenial surface of a Discomycete.

Dis´ciform, Dis´coid, Dis´coidal (discoides, disk-shaped), of a circular, flat form; disk-shaped.

Dis´cocarp (Gr—a disk, + Gr—fruit), ascocarp in which the hymenium or disk lies exposed while the asci are maturing as in Peziza, Morchella, etc.

Discomyce´tes (Gr—a disk, + Gr—fungus), a group of ascomycetous fungi in which the hymenium is exposed; the fruiting body is cupular, discoid or clavate, and sometimes convoluted.

Discrete´ (discretus, distinguished, separated), distinct, not coalescent.

Dissec´ted (dissectus, pp. of dissecare, cut asunder, < dis, asunder, + secare, cut), cut deeply into many lobes or divisions.

Dissep´iments (dissepimentum, a partition) dividing walls; partitions.

Dis´tal (dist(ance) + al), pertaining to the apex or outer extremity.

Dis´tant, (distans, ppr. distare, stand apart), far apart; of gills which have a wide distance between them.

Dis´tichous (Gr—having two rows), disposed in two rows.