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

Lead-Color (plumbeus), same as Plumbeous.

Lemon-Yellow (citreus, citrinus), a very pure light-yellow color, much like gamboge, but purer and richer.

Lentic´ular, Len´tiform (lenticularis, lentil-shaped, < lenticula, a lentil), shaped like a double convex lens; lentil-shaped.

Lep´idote (Gr—scaly), scurfy with minute scales.

Leucos´poræ (Gr—white; Gr—seed), a group of fungi having white spores, hence leucospore, a white spore; leucosporous, having spores of a white color.

Lev´igate (levigatus, pp. of levigare, make smooth), having a polished surface.

Lig´natile (lignatilis, < lignum, wood), growing on wood.

Lig´neous (ligneus, wooden), of woody texture.

Lig´ulate (ligula, a tongue, strap, etc., + ate), strap-shaped, flattened like a strap.

Lilac, Lilaceous (lilacinus, lilaceus), a light-purple color, like the flowers of the lilac.