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

Family (familia, household establishment, < famulus, a servant), a systematic group in a scientific classification embracing a greater or less number of genera which agree in certain characters not shared by others of the same order.

Farc´tate (farctus, < farcio, to stuff), stuffed; without vacuities; opposed to fistulose.

Farina´ceous (farinaceus, < farina, meal), mealy.

Far´inose (farinosus, mealy), covered with a white mealy powder.

Fas´cia (fascis, a bundle), a band or bar.

Fas´ciate, Fas´ciated (fascia, a band or girth), having broad parallel bands or stripes; banded or compacted together; exhibiting fasciation.

Fascia´tion (fascia, a band), the act or manner of binding with fasciæ, a monstrous flattened expansion of the stem; condition of being bound or compacted together.

Fas´cicle, Fascic´ulus (fasciculus, a small bundle; packet, etc.), a close cluster; a small bundle.

Fascic´ulate (fasciculus, a small bundle), growing in small bundles or fascicles.

Fastig´iate (fastigiatus, sloping, < fastigium, the top of a gable, slope), with branches erect and close together; sloping upward to a summit, point or edge.