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

Vi´nous (vinosus, < vinum, wine), wine-colored; vinaceous.

Violet, Viola´ceous, a purplish-blue color, like the petals of a violet. (Aniline-violet or mauve.)

Vires´cent (virescere, grow green, greenish), green or becoming green.

Vir´gate (virgatus, < virga, a twig, rod), streaked; having an erect, slender shape like a rod.

Virides´cent (viridescens, ppr. of viridescere, be green, < viridis, green), slightly green; greenish.

Vis´cid (viscum, bird-lime, anything sticky), moist and sticky, glutinous, clammy, adhesive; covered with a shiny liquid which adheres to the fingers when touched.

Vis´cose, Vis´cous (viscosus, < viscum, bird-lime), glutinous, clammy, adhesive.

Vitel´line (vitellus, yolk of egg, + ine), egg-yellow color; luteous.

Volute´ (voluta, a spiral scroll), rolled up in any direction.

Vol´va (volva, a wrapper), wrapper; same as universal veil; the name is often applied to that portion of a discrete volva which is left after rupturing, either attached in fragments to, or forming a distinct membranous sheath about, the base of the stem, the peridium in phalloids analogous to the volva in Amanitæ.