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
Spikelet more or less flattened, thicker than the slender or capillary culm, few–many-flowered; the thin membranaceous scales somewhat 2–3-ranked; style 3-cleft; bristles of the perianth 3–6, fragile or fugacious.
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
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. 2-3 cm. convexo-plane, umb. even, glabrous but silky towards edge, yellowish; g. remote from stem, white then greyish-fuscous; s. 2-3 cm. fistulose, slender, ring fugacious.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
P. 1.5-2.5 cm. campan. exp. glabrous, rather viscid, hygr. cinnamon then ochre; g. adnate, edge entire, whitish; s. 3-5 cm. equal, yellowish fuscous, striate with adpr. fibrils, almost glabrous, veil fugacious; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
