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. ovoid then convex, striate, deep yellow-ochre; g. numerous, slightly adnexed, colour of p.; s. white, ring fugacious, long rooting. capistrata, Cke.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. 5-9 cm. oblique or subcircular, hard, whitish with brownish spot-like squamules, flesh white then yellowish; g. decur. not anastomosing behind, white tinged yellow; s. 2-3 cm. sublateral, ring fugacious, torn; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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
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
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