fugacious
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The Reporter, on the other hand, calls it "a fugacious bit of whimsy that can only be judged minor Woody Allen".
From The Guardian ● Jul. 18, 2014
They have a fugacious, persistent friable ring, and are liable to be confused with the Cortinarii, unless attention is paid to the spidery veil and the iron-rust tint of the spores of the latter.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
P. conico-exp. umb. with fugacious longitudinal fibrils, yellow-rufescent; g. very broad, yellow then pallid; s. equal, glabrous, striate. centurio, Kalchb.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Leaves in fives, from short, fugacious, overlapping, membranaceous sheaths, 6 to 7 in. long, very slender, of a glaucous-green color, and very pendulous.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
Sporangia growing closely crowded together and more or less confluent, on a purplish-brown hypothallus, the walls fugacious.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
