"Isabelline" Quotes from Famous Books
... is two to five inches broad, hygrophanous; when moist dingy-brown or livid, becoming pale when dry, isabelline-livid, silky-shining; slightly fleshy, bell-shaped when young, then expanded and somewhat umbonate, or gibbous, at length rather plane and sometimes depressed; fibrillose when young, smooth when full grown; margin at first bent inwards and when large, undulated. ... — The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise - Its Habitat and its Time of Growth • M. E. Hard |