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

Gil´vous, isabelline; color of sole-leather.

Gla´brous (glaber, smooth), smooth, devoid of pubescence; a surface may be glabrous or smooth, and not even, or vice versa.

Glair (clarus, clear), any viscous transparent substance resembling white of an egg.

Glands, Glan´dules (glans, an acorn, dim. glandula, a gland), moist or sticky dots resembling the glands on the epidermis of phenogams.

Glan´dular, bearing glands.

Glauces´cent (glaucescen(t-)s, < glaucus, silvery, gleaming), inclining to glaucous.

Glau´cous (glaucus, silvery, gleaming), covered with a whitish-green bloom or very fine white powder easily rubbed off. Somewhat like that of cabbage.

Gle´ba (gleba, a clod), in Gastromycetes, spore-bearing tissue composed of chambers lined with the hymenium and enclosed by the sack-like peridium, as in puff-balls, etc.; in phalloids the peridium or volva ruptures and the gleba is carried up on the stem-like or clathrate receptacle.

Glo´bose, Glob´ular, Glob´ulose (globosus, round as a ball), nearly spherical.

Glu´tinose, Glu´tinous (glutinosus, gluey, viscous, < gluten, glue), covered with a sticky exudation; viscous; glue-like.