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

Nod´ulose, Nod´ulous (nodulosus, < nodulus, a little knot), having little swellings, knotty.

Non-, not; prefix giving a negative sense to words.

Nu´cleate, Nu´cleated (nucleatus, having a kernel), having a nucleus or nuclei.

Nucle´olus (pl. Nuclei) (nucleolus, dim. of nucleus, a little nut), sharply defined point often seen in the nucleus.

Nu´cleus (pl. Nu´clei) (nucleus, a little nut, kernel, stone of a fruit); the central, highly differentiated mass of protoplasm in a spore or other cells of a fungus, controlling cell division and reproduction, functionally the most important portion of a cell, for in it the process of cell division begins; sometimes improperly applied to the oil globules or guttulæ and the vacuoles within some spores.

Ob-, in composition “inversely.”

Obcla´vate (as if obclavatus, < ob, from; clava, a club), inversely club-shaped.

Obcon´ic, Obcon´ical (ob; conus, a cone), inversely conical.

Obcor´date (ob; cordatus, heart-shaped), like an inverted heart.

Obese´ (obesus, fat), stout, plump.