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

Lu´teous (luteus), yellowish; more or less like buff or clay color.

Lutes´cent (lutescen(t-)s, ppr. of lutescere, turn to mud, < lutum, mud), yellowish.

Macro- (Gr—long), in composition “large” or “long.”

Mac´ulate, Mac´ular, Mac´ulose (maculatus, pp. of maculare, spot, speckle), spotted.

Mam´miform (mamma, a breast; forma, form), breast-shaped; mastoid; teat-like.

Mar´ginal Veil, a horizontal membrane extending from the margin of the pileus to the stem; found in Hymenomycetes.

Mar´ginate, having a well-defined border.

Maroon (atro-purpureus, atro-coccineus), a rich brownish-crimson, nearly like the pigment called purple madder; claret color.

Ma´trix (matrix, a womb), the substance upon or in which a fungus grows.

Mauve (malvaceus, malvinus), a light tint of violet. (Aniline violet + white.)