+Gills+ far remote from the stem, with a broad plano-depressed cartilaginous collar, crowded, ventricose, broader in front, soft, whitish, sometimes becoming dusky at the edge. ❋ Caroline A. Burgin (N/A)
+Gills+ free, ventricose, narrowing at both ends, thin, first a pink color, then afterward brown or blackish-brown. ❋ Caroline A. Burgin (N/A)
+Stem+ 2 to 4 inches long, ¾ to ½ inch thick, swollen in the middle (ventricose), covered with a bloom ❋ Caroline A. Burgin (N/A)
The flowers are arranged in a crowded umbel on a short stoutish scape; they are of a deep-bluish purple, with a yellow eye; the divisions of the corolla are flat and lobed; calyx nearly as long as tube, and ventricose or unevenly swollen. ❋ John Wood (N/A)
Campanulate: bell-shaped: more or less ventricose at the base and a little recurved at the margin. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)
They are narrow or wide, swell out in the middle (ventricose), are curved like a bow (arcuate), and have a sudden wave or sinus in the edge near the stem (sinuate). ❋ Caroline A. Burgin (N/A)
The = gills = are adnate, slightly sinuate, and decurrent by a tooth, easily separating from the stem, rather crowded, slightly ventricose. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)
The = gills = are grayish white, then tinged with flesh color, slightly sinuate, the longer ones somewhat broader in the middle (ventricose), rather distant, and quite thick as seen in cross section, the center of the gill (trama) presenting parallel threads. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)
Again, the gills are _arcuate_ when they arch from the stem to the edge of the pileus, and _ventricose_ when they are bellied out vertically toward the earth. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)
The = gills = are sinuate or adnate, slightly broader in the middle (ventricose) in age, pale at first, then becoming ochre yellow, and darker when the plant dries. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)
The = stem = is clavate, pale cream buff in color, solid, becoming irregularly fistulose in age, bulbous or somewhat ventricose below, the bulb often large and abrupt, 1.5 -- 3 cm. in diameter. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)
The stem varies considerably in length and shape, being rarely ventricose, and then only at the base; the bulbous forms predominate and the bulb is often very large. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)
The = gills = are sinuate, adnate, somewhat ventricose, very rarely in abnormal specimens anastomosing near the margin of the pileus, at first light yellowish, then shading to umber and spotted with black and rusty brown as the spores mature, easily breaking away from the stipe, whitish on the edge. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)
-- "Skull ovate; forehead arched; nose short; brain case ovate, ventricose; the zygomatic arches very large, expanded; crown bent down behind" (_Gray_). ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
-- N.S. -- (Fig. 111.) Shell thick, spire rather short, conical; whirls eight rounded and somewhat ventricose, and ornamented by numerous ❋ Unknown (1858)
[VENUS CRIBRARI] Shell thick, medium size, slightly ventricose, furnished upon the outside by about twenty-five sharp lamelliform concentric and recurved ribs, crenulated upon the umbonal side; ribbed or ridged transversely on the ventral side, the ridges extending across to the adjacent rib; lunule crenulated. ❋ Unknown (1858)
(Fig. 225.) Shell rather large, thin, sub-oval, inequivalve, sub-ventricose, marked with rather obscure radiating lines, and impressed with an oblique fold in each valve. ❋ Unknown (1858)
Subcordate inequivalve ventricose; elongated and only slightly oblique; beaks very prominent and distant; ribs about twenty-five, crenulated, or transversely ridged; hinge area wide and marked by divergent striae or channels. ❋ Unknown (1858)
Shell arcseform, very ventricose, transverse; posterior slope very wide and poss - essed of a curved furrow; valves very thick; rays hair-like; cardinal teeth thick; lateral teeth short and straight; nacre white. ❋ Unknown (1771)
In the second section, the ascidia are ventricose and reclinate, with the operculum free, and arched over the aperture of the tube. ❋ Unknown (1771)
