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

Medial (medialis, < medius, the middle), applied to ring when situated about at the middle of stem.

Medul´la (medulla, marrow, pith, kernel, < medius, middle), pith, marrow, kernel; inner substance as distinguished from outer or cortical layer or layers.

Med´ullary, composed of or pertaining to a medulla.

Mega- (Gr—great, large), prefix signifying “great.”

Melanos´poræ (Gr—black, —seed), a group of fungi having black spores.

Membrana´ceous (membranaceus, of skin or membrane, < membrana, skin, membrane), pertaining to, or of the nature of, skin, membrane; membranaceous; thin, rather soft and pliable.

Meris´moid (merisma, from Gr—to divide, + —form), applied to pileus which is subdivided into many smaller pilei; resembling a Merisma; having a branched or laciniate pileus.

Mes´opod (Gr—middle, + —foot), plant having a central stem.

Mica´ceous (micaceus, < mica, mica), covered with glistening mica-like particles.

Mi´cron, Mi´kron, [Greek: m];, microscopic unit of measure; ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of a millimeter; nearly .00004 inch; to convert inches to microns, approximately, divide by .00004; represented by the Greek letter [Greek: m], following the number.