Part 15

Indigenous, native of a country.

Inferior, growing below; of the ring of an agaric, which is far down on the stem.

Infundibuliform, funnel-shaped.

Innate, adhering by growing into.

Inserted, growing like a graft from its stock.

Involute, edges rolled inward.

Laciniate, divided into flaps.

Lactescent, milk-bearing.

Lacunose, pitted or having cavities.

Lamellae, gills of mushrooms.

Lanceolate, lance-shaped; tapering to both ends.

Lateral, attached to one side.

Latex, the viscid fluid contained in some mushrooms.

Laticiferous, applied to the tubes conveying latex, as in the Lactarias.

Lepidote, scurfy with minute scales.

Leucospore, white spore.

Ligneous, woody consistency.

Linear, narrow and straight.

Linguiform, tongue-shaped.

AUTHORITIES CONSULTED.

Fries, Saccardo, Kromholtz, Cooke and Berkeley, M. C. Cooke, Peck, Stevenson, Badham, Gillet, Boyer, Gibson, Roques, Hussey, Hay, Bel, Paulet and Leveille, Constantin and Dufour, Barla, Roze, W. G. Smith, Vittadini.

STUDENT'S HAND-BOOK OF MUSHROOMS OF AMERICA

EDIBLE AND POISONOUS.

BY THOMAS TAYLOR, M. D.

AUTHOR OF FOOD PRODUCTS, ETC.

Published in Serial Form--=No. 2=--Price, 50c. per number.

WASHINGTON, D. C.: A. R. Taylor, Publisher, 238 Mass. Ave. N.E. 1897.

The ten mushrooms illustrated in the five plates contained in the first number of this series belong to the family Hymenomycetes. In the present number are presented illustrations representing three additional specimens of the Hymenomycetal fungi (Plates V, VI, and VII). There are also presented, in plates C and D, illustrations of nine species comprised in four genera of the sub family Discomycetes, of the family Ascomycetes.