I should think the non-viscidity of the stigmatic hollow was due to the plant not living under its natural conditions.
Among these I may particularly refer to the contracted stigmatic chamber, and the slight viscidity of its disk.
It is hollow and has a distinct viscid bulbous base, the viscidity of which is a peculiar feature.
The pileus sometimes appears as if slightly tomentose, and both this and the preceding species recede from the character of the tribe by the slight viscidity of the pileus.
The gluten orviscidity of the pileus in our specimens was rather tenacious and persistent.
The viscidity of the pileus is not always clearly discernible.
The stem is somewhat and the cap very viscid when moist, and this viscidity when dry gives it a shining appearance.
The viscidity can be detected in old specimens by moistening the pileus.
Defecation by repose is always better than filtration, owing to the more or less viscidity of the suspended matter.
By the extraordinary Viscidity or Thickness of the Humours, that foul the Tongue, we should form our Notions of those, which line the Stomach and the Bowels.
From the viscidityof cordials they are less readily 'fined down' than unsweetened liquor, and often give much trouble to clumsy and inexperienced operators.
From the viscidity of the several masses, their incorporation is left incomplete, so as to produce the appearance of marbling.
It must be fatter and softer than that applied directly to the stone, so that though dry upon the paper, it may still preserve sufficient viscidity to stick to the stone by mere pressure.
The adhesion of the blood to the sides of the vessels, likewise causes a loss of velocity in the minuter branches, which may be owing to a chemical affinity: the viscidity or imperfect fluidity of the blood is another retarding cause.
They are attenuating and deobstruent, consequently of service in disorders arising from a languid circulation, a viscidity of the juices, a lax fibre, and obstructed viscera.
Its purgative quality naturally led me to give it in febrile diseases which seem to arise from viscidity in the primae viae; and in these cases it succeeded to admiration, even when the sick did not void worms.
These seeds are recommended as a carminative, in flatulent colics proceeding from a cold cause or a viscidity of the juices.
It has frequently done great service in some kinds of scurvies and other chronic disorders proceeding from a viscidity of the juices, or obstructions of the excretory ducts.
It is hardly proper, perhaps, to call this resistance by the name of friction; it is partly, perhaps mainly, due to the viscidity or adhesion of the water.
