pulverulent

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This genus is distinguished by a cob-web-like veil, dry persistent gills, which in the mature plants become discolored, and pulverulent with the rusty or ochraceous colored spores.

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

Fronds mostly chaffy, woolly, or pulverulent, rarely smooth.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

P. 1.5-2.5 cm. umb. subcampan. silkily squamulose, tawny brown; g. fawn then rusty; s. 2-3 cm. fibrillose, reddish, pulverulent above; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The variety papulatum is subrotund, sessile, papillose and pulverulent, the warts being nearly uniform in size.

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

P. 1-2 cm. conical then convexo-plane, viscid, striate, grey, livid, rosy, &c.; g. free, ventricose, saffron-ochre; s. thin, pulverulent, subincurved, white; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George