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

Fus´cous (fuscus, dusky), brownish in color; brown or brown tinged with gray; dingy, not pure.

Fu´siform, Fu´soid (fusus, a spindle; forma, form), spindle-shaped.

Gamogen´esis (Gr—marriage, + generation), sexual reproduction.

Gas´teromyce´tes, Gas´tromyce´tes (Gr—stomach, + mushroom), a group of Basidiomycetes in which the hymenium is enclosed in a sack-like envelope called the peridium.

Gelat´inous (gelatinosus, < gelatina, gelatine), jelly-like.

Gener´ic (genus, race, sort), pertaining to, of the nature of, or forming a mark of a genus; having the rank or classificatory value of a genus.

Genet´ic (Gr—generation), of or pertaining to origin or mode of production.

Ge´nus (pl. Gen´era) (L.—race, birth, origin, kind), a group of species having one or more characteristics in common; the union of several genera presenting the same features constitute a tribe.

Gib´bous (gibbus, hump-backed), in the form of a swelling; of a pileus e. g. which is more convex or tumid on one side than the other.

Gills, the plates of an agaric on which the hymenium is situated; the lamellæ.