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

Embossed´, in botany projecting in the center like the boss or umbo of a round shield.

Em´bryo, the mushroom before leaving its volva, also an early stage of mushrooms which have no volva.

Encrust´ing (incrustare, cover with a rind or crust, < in, on, + crusta, a crust).

Endem´ic (Gr—native), peculiar to and characteristic of a locality or region; indigenous in some region and not elsewhere.

Endo-, Ento- (Gr—“in,” “within”), prefix signifying “within,” “inside.”

Endobasid´ia (Gr—within, + basidium), basidia enclosed in a dehiscent or indehiscent conceptacle.

Endocau´lous (Gr—within, + caulis, a stalk), growing in the substance of herbaceous stems.

En´dogen (Gr—within, + producing). See Monocotyledon.

Endog´enous (Gr—within, + Gr—producing, + ous), produced within another body; of or pertaining to the class of endogens.

Endoperid´ium (Gr—within, + peridium), inner layer of the peridium.