left in the basket after having selected those for broiling,
and also use the stems cut from the mushrooms prepared for boiling.
After cleaning and skinning them put them in cold water with a little
vinegar, and let them stand half an hour. If you have a quart of
mushrooms, put a tablespoonful of nice fresh butter in a stewpan and
stand it on the stove. When the butter begins to bubble drop the
mushrooms in the pan, and after they have cooked a minute season them
well with salt and black pepper. Now take hold of the handle of the
stewpan and, while the mushrooms are gently and slowly cooking, shake
the pan almost constantly to keep the butter from getting brown and the
mushrooms from sticking. After they have cooked eight minutes pour in
enough rich, sweet cream to cover the mushrooms to the depth of half an
inch, and let them cook about eight or ten minutes longer. Serve them in
a very hot vegetable dish. Do not thicken the cream with flour or with
anything. Just cook them in this simple way. You will find them
perfect.

GLOSSARY.

Abortive, imperfectly developed.

Aberrant, deviating from a type.

Acicular, needle-shaped.

Aculeate, slender pointed.

Acuminate, terminating in a point.

Acute, sharp pointed.

Adnate, gills squarely and firmly attached to the stem.

Adnexed, gills just reaching the stem.

Adhesion, union of different organs or tissues.

Adpressed, pressed into close contact, as applied to the gills.

Agglutinated, glued to the surface.

Alveolate, honey-combed.

Alutaceous, having the color of tanned leather.

Anastomosing, branching, joining of one vein with another.

Annual, completing growth in one year.

Annular, ring-shaped.

Annulate, having a ring.

Annulus, the ring around the stem of a mushroom.

Apex, in mushrooms the extremity of the stem next to the gills.

Apical, close to the apex.

Apiculate, terminating in a small point.

Appendiculate, hanging in small fragments.

Applanate, flattened out or horizontally expanded.

Arachnoid, cobweb-like.

Arculate, bow-shaped.

Areolate, pitted, net-like.

Ascus, spore case of certain mushrooms.

Ascomycetes, a group of fungi in which the spores are produced in sacs.

Ascospore, hymenium or sporophore bearing an ascus or asci.

Atomate, sprinkled with atoms or minute particles.

Atro (ater, black), in composition "black" or "dark."

Atro