"Capitate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gills as well as the edges is provided with clavate cystidia which are filled with a yellow pigment, giving to the gills the bright yellow color so characteristic. These cystidia extend above the basidia, and the ends are rounded so that sometimes they appear capitate. The yellow color is not confined to the cystidia, for the sub-hymenium is also colored in a similar way. The spores are yellowish, oblong to elliptical or spindle-shaped, and measure 8—12 x 3—5 mu. The stem is the same color as the pileus, but paler, and more yellow at the base. It is marked ...
— Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. • George Francis Atkinson
... capitate Cordyceps. Head globose, base sclerotioid Claviceps. Parasitic on grass— Stroma myceloid Epichloe. Variable— Sporidia double, finally separating Hypocrea. Sporidia double, ejected in tendrils, parasitic on fungi Hypomyces. Stroma definite, ...
— The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise - Its Habitat and its Time of Growth • M. E. Hard
... Cataio. Et che cio sia la verita, le nauigationi che hanno fatte gl' Inglesi con le loro naui, volendo andare a scoprire il Cataio al tempo del Re Odoardo Sesto d'Inghilterra, questi anni passati, ne possono far vera testimonianza: perche nel mezzo del loro viaggio, capitate per fortuna a i liti di Moscouia doue trouarano all' hora regnare Giouanni Vasiliuich Imperatore della Rossia e gran Duca di Moscouia, il quale con molto piacere e marauiglia vedutogli, fece grandissime carezze, hanno trouato quel mare essere nauigabile, e non agghiacciato. La qual nauigatione ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation v. 4 • Richard Hakluyt
... Capitate: with a head: that type of clavate antenna in which the club is abruptly enlarged at tip and forms a ...
— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith |
