punctate
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It is not shaggy, but is spotted with minute, innate punctate scales.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
Capsule 10–20-seeded.—Leafy-stemmed perennials, glabrous except the ciliate petioles, not punctate, the leaves all opposite, but mostly in seeming whorls on the flowering branches.
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 Asa Gray
Texture.—Succulent, fleshy; scarious, dry and chaffy; punctate, having translucent glands, so that the leaf appears, when held toward the light, as though full of holes; membranous, thin, soft, and rather translucent; thick, thin, etc.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
P. 3-5 cm. convex then plane, viscid, rosy, punctate with brown warts, striate; g. yellowish, edge often reddish; s. 2-3 cm. coloured like p. base whitish; sp. 8-9. var. leucopus, Cke.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. 2-3 cm. convex, subumb. not striate, flocculose then squamulose, dark violet; g. greyish-white, edge rather paler; s. 3-5 cm. blue, not punctate; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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