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

Si´nus (sinus, the fold of a garment, a curve, hollow), a rounded inward curve between two projecting lobes.

Slate-Color (schistaceus), a dark gray or blackish gray color, less bluish in tint than plumbeous or lead color.

Smoke-Gray (fumidio-canus). (Black + white + raw umber.)

Smooth, glabrous; applied to a surface which is destitute of hairs; a surface may be uneven and yet smooth.

Sor´did (sordidus, dirty, filthy, mean, < sordere, be dirty), of a dingy, dirty hue.

Spadic´eous (spadiceus, < spadix, a palm branch), date-brown, duller and darker than bay-brown.

Spath´ulate, Spat´ulate (spathula, dim. of spatha, a broad, flat instrument for stirring liquids), shaped like a spathula or spoon; oblong or rounded and flattened at the top with a long, narrow, attenuate base.

Spe´cies, an individual, or collectively those individuals which differ specifically from all other members of a genus and which do not differ from each other except within narrow limits of variability, and which produce by propagation other individuals of the same kind.

Specif´ic (species, kind, + ficus, < facere, make), of, pertaining to, constituting, peculiar to, characteristic of, designating species or a species; not generic, not of wider application than to a species.

Sphag´num (Gr—a kind of moss), peat or bog moss.