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

Pearl Blue, a very pale, purplish-blue color.

Pearl Gray (margaritaceus), a very pale, delicate, blue-gray color.

Pec´tinate (pectinatus, comb-like, pp. pectinare, < pecten, a comb), with narrow teeth, arranged as in a comb.

Ped´icel (pediculus, a little foot), foot stalk; any short, very small, stem-like stalk.

Ped´icellate (pedicellus, dim. of pediculus, a little foot), having a pedicel or little foot stalk.

Pel´licle (pellicula, a small skin, dim. of pellis, skin), a little or thin skin, a cuticle; same as cortical layer and cuticle.

Pellic´ulose (pelliculosus, < pellicula, dim. of pellis, skin), furnished with a pellicle or distinct skin.

Pellu´cid (pellucidus, perlucidus, transparent, < pellucere, perlucere, shine through, be transparent), admitting the passage of light, transparent, translucent.

Pel´tate (peltatus, armed with a light shield, < pelta, a light shield), formed like a shield and fixed to the stalk by the center, or by some point distinctly within the margin.

Pen´ciled (pencillum, a painter’s brush), marked with fine lines; with pencil-like hairs either on the tip or border.