dimidiate

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P. 1-2 cm. dimidiate, sessile and fixed by a downy nodule, white, marginate behind, variegated with minute rufescent scales; g. radiating from base, at length brownish rusty; sp. ——. haustellaris, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The pileus is thin, unequal, tough, fleshy, eccentric, dimidiate; cinnamon, then pale; becoming scaly; flaccid; margin often lobed.

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

The terminal cell is always solitary, very often attached to the one next it, which is generally single, obliquely placed, occasionally looking like the dimidiate calyptra capping a young seta. 

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William

La Touche, J. D., on a Canadian apple with dimidiate fruit, i. 392-393.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

APPLE. -fruit of, in Swiss lake-dwellings. -rendered fastigiate by heat in India. -bud-variation in the. -with dimidiate fruit. -with two kinds of fruit on the same branch. -artificial fecundation of.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles