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fibrillose

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[fahy-bruhl-ohs, fi-bruhl-ohs] / ˈfaɪ brəl oʊs, ˈfɪ brəl oʊs /

adjective

  1. covered with or composed of fibrils.


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Often confounded with n. 34, but easily distinguished by the non-cespitose habit, sheaths not fibrillose, and the short scales very obtuse.

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

P. campan.-exp. brownish black with bluish tinge, subumb., margin straight; g. densely crowded, like flesh, bluish white; s. incurved, fibrillose, bulbous. sordidum, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 3-4 cm. hemispherical, obtuse, viscid when moist, smooth; g. adnate; s. 5-7 cm. solid, squamulose or fibrillose below the ring, base tinged brown; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 2-4 cm. soon plane, umb. even, dingy violet then pale; g. crowded, white, edge irreg.; s. 3-4 cm. elastic, fibrillose, coloured like p.; sp. 6-7 � 3.5.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. bullate, obtuse, wavy, covered with dense superficial fibrils, edge at first incurved and with white wool; g. adnate, grey; s. solid, white, fibrillose.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

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