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

The´caspore, the spore thus enclosed by the wall of the sac; an ascospore.

Tis´sue (texere, weave), the cellular fabric out of which plant structures are built up.

Toad´stool (toad + stool), a general name applicable to any form of visible fungus; usually applied to fleshy fungi as distinguished from the molds, smuts, etc. Mushroom is a name given to a few species of toadstools known to commerce, and wrongly to other edible species, of which there are many.

Tomen´tose, Tomentous (tomentum, wool, etc.), densely pubescent with matted wool or tomentum.

Tomen´tum (tomentum, a stuffing of wool, hair, feathers, etc.), a species of pubescence consisting of longish, soft, entangled hairs pressed close to the surface.

Torn, said of pores which are superficially rough and jagged as if torn.

To´rose, Tor´ulose (torosus, full of muscle or flesh, < torus, a bulging, protuberance), swollen at intervals.

Tor´sion (torquere, pp. tortus, twist, wring), the state of being twisted spirally.

Tor´sive (torsus, pp. torquere, twist), spirally twisted.

Tor´tuous, bending or turning in various directions.