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

Nap´iform (napus, a turnip, + forma, form), turnip-shaped.

Narrow, of a very slight vertical width.

Nas´cent (nascen(t)s, ppr. of nasci, be born), in the earliest rudimentary condition; beginning to exist or to grow.

Nat´uralized, said of a plant of foreign origin which thrives as if indigenous.

Navic´ular, Naviculoid (navicula, a small ship or boat), boat-shaped; scaphoid.

Netted, covered with projecting, reticulated lines.

Nigres´cent, Nig´ricant (nigrescen(t-)s, ppr. of nigrescere, become black, grow dark), becoming black, also blackish, dusky, fuscous.

Nit´id, Nit´idus (nitidus, shining, bright, < nitere, to shine), lustrous, shining, polished.

Ni´veous (niveus, snowy, < nix, snow), snow-white.

Nod´ule (nodulus, a little knot, dim. of nodus, a knot), a little knot or lump.