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

Ver´tex (vertex, vortex (tic-), a whirl, eddy, highest point, etc.), the upper extremity.

Verticil´late (verticillus, a whirl), whorled.

Ves´cicle (vesicula, a little blister, a vesicle, dim. of < vesica, bladder, blister), a minute bladder-like cell or cavity.

Vesic´ular, Vesi´culate, Vesic´ulose, Vesic´ulous (vesicula, vescicle), composed of or like vescicles.

Vil´lose, Vil´lous (villosus, < villus, a tuft of hair), downy with soft weak hairs.

Vina´ceous, a brownish-pink or delicate brownish-purple color like wine dregs; a soft, delicate wine-colored pink or purple.

Vina´ceous-Buff (vinaceo-luteus). (Indian-red + yellow ocher + white.)

Vina´ceous-Cinnamon (vinaceo-cinnamomeus). (Burnt umber + burnt sienna + white.)

Vina´ceous-Pink (vinaceo-caryophyllaceus). (Madder-carmine + light-red + white.)

Vina´ceous-Ru´fous (vinaceo-rufus). (Indian-red + light-red + white.)