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

Free, said of gills which are not attached to the stem; said of any part not attached to another; of spores not inclosed in a special envelope.

Frill, same as Armilla.

Front, same as Anterior.

Fringe (fimbria, a border), a lacerated, marginal membrane.

Fruc´tification (fructificare, bear fruit), reproducing power of a plant; fruiting; also the organs concerned.

Fuga´cious (fugar, < fugere, flee), fleeting, transitory; falling or fading early.

Fu´gitive (fugitivus, fleeing away; a fugitive), quickly disappearing; evanescent.

Fuligin´eous, Fulig´inous (fuliginosus), sooty-brown or dark smoke-color.

Fulves´cent (fulvescens), inclining to a fulvous color.

Ful’vous (fulvus), a rather indefinite brownish-yellow or yellowish-brown tint, like tanned leather; tawny.