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

Multipar´tite (multipartitus, much divided), divided into many parts.

Multisep´tate (as if multiseptatus, < multus, many, + septum, a partition), divided by many partitions.

Mu´ricate (muricatus, pointed), rough with short hard points.

Muric´ulate (muriculatus, dim. of muricatus, pointed), finely muricate.

Mu´riform (murus, wall, + forma, shape), resembling the arrangement of the bricks in the walls of a house; said of spores having septa at right angles to each other.

Mu´rine, Mu´rinous (murinus, of a mouse), mouse-colored.

Mush´room, a cryptogamic plant of the class fungi: applied in a general sense to almost any of the larger, conspicuous fungi, such as toadstools, puff-balls, hydnei, etc., but more particularly to the agaricoid fungi and especially to the edible forms.

Mu´tualism, symbiosis of two organisms living together and mutually helping and supporting each other.

Myc, Mycet, Myceto, Myco, prefix signifying “fungus.”

Myce´lial, of or pertaining to mycelium.