dimidiate

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The pileus is two to three inches broad, fleshy, then tough, coriaceous; plane, then funnel-shaped, or dimidiate; even; smooth; almost flesh color, varying to reddish-livid, sometimes violet tinted.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

P. convex, dimidiate, sooty, with black squamules; g. decur. distinct, white; s. with black squamules up to sooty ring. dryinus, Pers.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The shape of the fungus is peculiar, a sort of semi-circular outline that may be called dimidiate.

From Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners by Dallas, Ellen M.

P. tough, thin, unequal, excentric, dimidiate, cinnamon then pale, becoming squamulose, 3-9 cm.; g. decur. in lines, somewhat branched, pinkish then ochre; s. 1-2 cm. unequal, base pubescent; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Tu quoque tu in summis, O dimidiate Menander, Poneris, et merito, puri sermonis amator: Lenibus atque utinam scriptis adjuncta foret vis Comica, ut æquato virtus polleret honore Cum Græcis, neque in hac despectus parte jaceres.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John