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

Plane, having a flat surface.

Pli´cate (plicatus, fold, bend), folded like a fan; plaited.

Plum´beous (plumbeus), a deep, bluish-gray color like tarnished lead; lead-color. (Lamp-black + intense blue + white.)

Plu´mose, Plu´mous (plumosus, full of feathers or down), feathery or feathered.

Pluri-, prefixed has the significance of “many.”

Pneumogas´tric (Gr—lung, + —stomach), pertaining to the lungs and stomach, or to the functions of respiration and digestion; in anatomy noting several nervous structures.

Poc´uliform (poculum, cup, + forma, form), cup-shaped.

Poly-, a prefix meaning “many.”

Polyg´onal, having many angles.

Polymor´phism, Pol´ymorphy, existence in or exhibition by the same species or group of different types of structure.