furfuraceous
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The stem is stuffed, tapering downward, whitish, furfuraceous near the cap.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
Desquamation sometimes furfuraceous, sometimes lamellar, involving all of the epidermic layer in such a manner that in some places the papillary layer was exposed.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
There is slight scaliness, always insignificant and furfuraceous in character, and at times, except upon close inspection, scarcely perceptible.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Pileus thin, convex then deformed, squamulose or furfuraceous; g. adnate, broad; usually distant and powdered with the white spores. ectypa, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
The stem is equal or slightly tapering upward; reticulated, either wholly or in upper part only; colored like the pileus or a little paler, sometimes slightly furfuraceous.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard