venulose
Americanadjective
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Origin of venulose
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Capillitium of threads more or less branched, 5–6 mic. in thickness, golden-yellow; the surface minutely venulose, and with larger rings and spirals, and sometimes with scattered spinules; the free extremities obtuse.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
M. polymórpha, L. Thallus 2–5´ long, ½–1½´ wide, numerously porose, venulose; receptacle divided into usually 9 terete rays; peduncles 1–3´ high; antheridial disk crenately or palmately 2–8-lobed, on a peduncle 1´ high or less.—Everywhere common.
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
Stipe short, thick, white, arising from a white, venulose, hypothallus, tapering upward; the columella cylindric or slightly tapering, obtuse, terminating below the apex of the sporangium.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
The gills are pure white, unequal, some of them forked, adnate, the interstices venulose.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
The hypothallus, sometimes entirely wanting, is anon well developed, even continuous, venulose, from stipe to stipe.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
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