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

Gymnocar´pous (Gr—naked, Gr—fruit), having the hymenium exposed when the spores are maturing.

Gy´rate, Gy´rose (Gr—a circle), circling in wavy folds; having folds resembling the convolutions of the brain.

Hab´itat (habitat, it dwells), natural abode of a vegetable species.

Hausto´rium (pl. Hausto´ria) (haustor, a drawer, < haurire, pp. haustus, draw), special branch of filamentous mycelium, which serves as an organ of adhesion and suction.

Hemiangiocar´pous (hemi, half, + Gr—a vessel, a case), partly angiocarpous as those agarics where the hymenium is at first enclosed by a veil or otherwise and later becomes exposed.

Hepat´ic (hepaticus, of the liver), pertaining to the liver, hence liver-colored; brownish-red.

Herbic´olous, growing on herbaceous plants.

Heteroge´neous (Gr—one of two), of a structure which is different from adjacent ones.

Hibernac´ulum (pl. Hibernac´ula) (winter residence, < hibernare, pass the winter), applied to bodies which are the forms in which certain fungi (e. g. Typhulæ) pass the winter.

Hirsute´ (hirsutus, rough, shaggy, bristly), hairy with stiff hairs.