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

Lin´ear (linearis, < linea, a line), narrow and straight, slender.

Ling´uiform, Ling´ulate (lingua, tongue), tongue-shaped.

Livid (lividus, black-and-blue), bluish-black, like the black and blue of a bruise.

Lobed, Lo´bate (Gr—the lobe of an ear), having divisions which are large and rounded.

Lob´ulate, having small lobes.

Loc´ular, Loc´ulate, Loc´ulose, Loc´ulous (loculus, a box, cell), divided by internal partitions into loculi or cells.

Loc´ulus (pl. Loc´uli), a little chamber or cell.

Lu´cid (lucidus, light, bright, clear), clear, transparent, bright.

Lu´men (lumen, a window-light), the internal cavity or spaces in a cell or any tubular organ.

Lu´rid (luridus, pale-yellow, wan, etc.), a color between purple, yellow and gray; livid.