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

Sporif´era, a class of fungi in which the spores are free, naked or soon exposed.

Sporif´erous (spora, spore + ferre, bear), bearing spores; applied to a fungus of the class Sporifera.

Spo´rocarp (spora, spore, + Gr—fruit), in Ascomycetes the entire fruit, composed of the ascophore and the asci.

Sporog´enous (spora, spore, + Gr—producing), producing spores.

Spo´rophore (spora, spore), branch or portion of thallus which bears spores or spore-mother-cells; said to be simple or filamentous when consisting of a single hypha or branch of a hypha; compound, when formed by the cohesion of the ramifications of separate hyphal branches (the common mushroom is a compound sporophore.)

Sport, an animal or plant, or any part of one that varies suddenly or singularly from the normal type of structure, and is usually of transient character or not perpetuated; not so much deformed as “monster.”

Spo´rule, see under [Spore].

Squa´ma (pl. Squa´mæ) (squama, a scale), a scale or scale-like appendage.

Squa´mose, Squa´mous (squamosus, < squama, a scale), covered with appressed scales; scale-like.

Squam´ula, Squam´ule (dim. of squama, a scale), a small squama.