ic, 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.

Copyright, 1897, by
Thomas Taylor, M. D.,
and
A. R. Taylor.

ASCOMYCETES.

Fruit, consisting of sporidia, mostly definite, contained in asci,
springing from a naked or enclosed stratum of fructifying cells, and
forming a hymenium.--Cooke and Berkeley.

Prof. J. de Seyne states that the three elements which form the hymenium
in the fami