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

Hypophyl´lous (foltum, a leaf, + ous), growing on the under side of a leaf.

Hypothe´cium (Gr—under, a case), layer of hyphal tissue immediately beneath a hymenium.

Identification, the determination of a genus and species to which a given specimen belongs.

Im´bricate, Im´bricated (imbricatus, pp. of imbricare, cover with gutter tiles; form like a gutter tile), to lay or lap one over another, like shingles.

Immar´ginate (in, negative; marginatus, marginate), without a well-defined margin.

Immersed´ (immersus, pp. of immergere, dip or plunge into), sunk into the matrix; originating beneath the surface of the matrix or of the ground; growing wholly under water.

Imper´forate (in, not, + perforatus, pp. of perforare, perforate), without any aperture.

Incanes´cent (incanescen(t-)s, ppr. of incanescere, become gray or hoary), somewhat or slightly canescent.

Incar´nate (in, in, on, + caro (carn), flesh), flesh-colored.

Incised´ (incisus, pp. incindere, cut into), appearing as if cut into; having marginal slits or notches.