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

Squam´ulose (squamulosus, < squamula, dim. of squama, a scale), covered with small scales.

Squar´rose (squarrosus, scaly), rough with scales; roughened with projecting points.

Stalk, stipe; any stem-like supporting organ.

Stel´late (stellatus, pp. of stellare, set or cover with stars, < stella, star), star-shaped.

Sterig´ma (pl. Sterigmata) (Gr— a prop, support), stalk-like branch of a basidium bearing a spore.

Ster´ile, not fertile; producing no spores.

Stipe (L.—a stock, trunk, post, etc.), stalk of a mushroom.

Stip´itate (stipitatus, < stipes, a stalk), stemmed, elevated on a stipe.

Sto´ma (pl. Sto´mata) (Gr—the mouth, opening, entrance, out-let, etc.), a mouth or aperture; little orifices in the epidermis of leaves, etc., opening into air cavities or intercellular spaces.

Straight, applied to margin of pileus when not involute.