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

Spher´ical, Sphe´roid, of the shape of a ball or globe or nearly so.

Spic´ular, Spic´ulate, Spic´ulous (spicule + ar), covered with spicules.

Spic´ule (spicula, a little sharp point), in Hymenomycetes one of the small projections on the basidia which bear the spores.

Spin´ule (spinula, dim. of spina, a thorn), a small spine or prickle.

Sporan´giophore (sporangium + Gr—bear), special mycelial branch bearing a sporangium.

Sporan´gium (pl. Sporangia) (spora, a spore, + Gr—vessels), sac producing spores endogenously.

Spore (Gr—a sowing, seed time, seed, etc.), the reproductive body of cryptogams analogous to the seed of phenogams; the terms spores, sporidia, sporules and conidia have been applied somewhat indiscriminately to all spore bodies.

Sporidif´era, a class of fungi in which the spores are enclosed in asci.

Sporidif´erous, Sporidiif´erous (sporidium, + ferre, bear), bearing sporidia; applied to a fungus of the class Sporidifera.

Sporid´ium (pl. Sporid´ia) (dim. of Gr—spore), an ascospore or endospore. See [Spore].