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

P. 5-9 cm. ovate then exp. obtuse, even, glabrous, brownish or pinkish tan then pale; g. adnate, crowded; s. 4-7 cm. hollow, floccosely-fibrillose, white, ring distant, fugacious; sp. ——. hypsipoda, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Hymenophore continuous with the stem, veil woven into a fugacious web, which adheres to the margin of the pileus.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

P. 4-5 cm. thin, almost plane, subgibbous, hygr. yellow or tawny, golden and shining when dry; g. adnato-decur. crowded; s. soft, conical, snow-white, glutinous veil fugacious; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

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 Taylor, Thomas