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

Unsep´tate (un, not; septum, a fence), having no partitions.

Ur´ceolate (urceolus, a little pitcher, + ate), shaped like a pitcher with a contracted mouth.

U´terus (uterus, the womb, belly), same as peridium in Gastromycetes.

U´tricle (utriculus, a little leather bag or bottle, etc.), any thin bladder-like or bottle-like body.

Vac´uolate, Vac´uolated (vacuole + ate), provided with vacuoles.

Vac´uole (vacuolum, dim. of vacuum, an empty space), a cavity of greater or less size within the protoplasmic mass of active vegetable cells filled with water or cell-sap, as it is called.

Vag´inate (vagina, a sheath), furnished with or contained in a sheath; sheathed.

Vague, indefinite, indistinct.

Vandyke Brown, a rich deep brown, very similar to burnt umber, but rather less reddish.

Va´riable (variabilis, changeable, < variare, change), said of a species which embraces many individuals which depart more or less from the type of the group.