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

Scu´tellate (scutellatus, < scutella, a salver, dish), shaped like a plate or platter.

Section, a cutting, cutting off, excision, amputation, etc.

Semi-, prefix meaning “half” or “partial.”

Sep´arable (separabilis, that can be separated, < separare, separate), capable of being detached.

Sep´arating, becoming detached, as lamellæ from the stem, or resupinate fungi from the matrix.

Se´pia, a deep, dark-brown color, with a little red in its composition. The pigment called sepia is a carbonaceous matter, prepared from the natural ink of a species of cuttle-fish.

Sep´tate (septum, a fence), having partitions.

Sep´tum (pl. Septa) (septum, a fence), partition.

Se´riate (seriatus, pp. of seriare, arrange in a series), arranged in rows.

Seric´eous (sericum, silk), silky.