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

Pales´cent, inclining to paleness; becoming pallid.

Pal´lid, pale, undecided color.

Pal´udine, Palu´dinous, Pal´udose, Palus´trine (palus (palud-), a swamp), growing in marshes or swamps.

Papil´iona´ceous (papilio(n-), butterfly), variegated; mottled; marked with different colors; as the lamellæ of some species of Panæolus mottled with black spores.

Papil´la (pl. Papil´læ) (papilla, a nipple, a teat, also a bud, pimple, dim. of papula, a pustule), a small nipple-shaped elevation.

Pap´illate (papillatus, < papilla, a nipple), furnished with one or more nipple-like elevations.

Papil´liform, Papil´læform, shaped like a papilla.

Papyra´ceous (papyraceus, < papyrus, paper), parchment; resembling the material covering a hornet’s nest; pergamentous.

Paraph´ysis (pl. Paraph´yses) (Gr—an off-shoot), slender, thread-like bodies growing with the asci; sterile cells usually club-shaped found with the reproductive cells of some plants.

Par´asite (Gr—one who eats at another’s table, a guest), a plant growing on or in another living body from which it derives all or part of its nourishment.