pilei
- plural of pileus.
Example Sentences
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The pilei are imbricated, fibrous, scaly, margin fimbriated, at first dirty white.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
Their radiately cracked pilei, with the inner substance showing yellow through the cracks, will help to distinguish the species.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
P. up to 1 cm. convex, papillate, grey, subtomentose; g. adnate; s. 3-5 cm. base dark, springing from a blackish sclerotium; several minute stems with abortive pilei often spring from the stem; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
It grows on the ground, and when young and fresh the pilei are said to be good.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
P. subsessile, imbricate, pilei tongue-shaped, glabrous, subrugose, rufous then tan, edge involute, entire; g. closely crowded, rufescent. vulpinus, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
