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

Fil´aceous, Fil´iform (filum, a thread, + aceous), like a thread or filament.

Fim´briate, Fim´briated (fimbriatus, < fimbriæ, a fringe), fringed; cut jaggedly.

Fis´sile (fissilis, cleft, < fissus, pp. findere, split), capable of being split, cleft or divided in layers.

Fis´sured (fissura, a cleft, chink, fissure), cleft or split.

Fis´tular, Fis´tulose (fistularis, like a pipe, < fistula, a pipe), tubular, hollow in the center like a pipe.

Fixed, said of lamellæ or spines not readily detached from the underlying tissue.

Flabel´late, Flabel´liform (flabellum, a fan), fan-shaped.

Flac´cid (flaccidus, flabby, pendulous), soft and limber; flabby; without firmness or elasticity.

Flaves´cent (flavescens, ppr. flavescere, become yellow, < flavus, yellow), yellowish or turning yellow.

Fla´vous (flavus, golden-yellow, reddish-yellow), yellow.