pulverulent
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P. globose campan. umb. hygrophanous, pellucidly striate; g. free, white then dingy; s. pulverulent, white. plancus, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
The manyplies, or third stomach, contains between its laminæ hard, pulverulent, and dry alimentary substances, which are seen sticking to the different leaves.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honor? Bourguignon
P. fleshy, globose then hemisph. ochraceous, pulverulent, edge involute; g. distant, forked, pallid; s. fistulose, thick, obliquely sulcate and twisted, pallid.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
In the Cæomacei, Ustilaginei, and Æcidiacei the pseudospores are pulverulent, as in some species of Puccinia, and are easily diffused by the motion of the leaves in the wind, or the contact of passing bodies.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
The diffusion of these fruits is more or less complete according to their compact or pulverulent nature.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
