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
In some Agarics the ring is very fugacious, or absent altogether.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
P. 3-7 cm. convexo-exp. glabrous, tawny brick-red; g. adnate, bright tawny cinnamon; s. 6-7 cm. subbulbous, dingy white, peronate, ring spurious, fugacious; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. persistently campan. sulcate up to disc, reddish-brown; g. nearly free, broad, blackish, subdeliquescent; s. slender, tall, rigid, hollow, whitish, ring median, very distinct, fugacious; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Ring narrow, scarcely perceptible above the middle of the stem; remnants of the veil adhering to the margin of the cap as a fugacious web.Fig.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
