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Panax, pa-naks′, n. a genus of shrubs with radiately or pinnately compound leaves and small flowers in compound umbels, the ginseng.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

P. whitish then grey with umber or tan scales, then almost glabrous, silky shining, and radiately cracked; s. even, white. var. eximius, Saund. and Sm.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The pileus is convex, obtuse or umbonate, even, radiately rugose-wrinkled, generally even and regular on the margin, reddish-yellow or light bay.

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

The tubes are arranged in prominently radiating rows, the partitions often running radiately in the form of lamellæ, certain ones of them being more prominent than others as shown in Fig.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

P. convex, umbil. diaphanous, striate; g. very distant, thin, broad; s. equal, base radiately floccose; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George