hispid
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of hispid
1640–50; < Latin hispidus rough, shaggy; akin to hirsute
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P. 5-7 cm. obtuse, honey colour, hispid with crowded simple black fibrils; g. dingy yellow; s. bulbous, with a lax reticulation of black fibrils; sp. ——. arenatus, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Heads rather larger, the outer scales 12–20, mostly exceeding the inner, slender and hispid; achenes with 2 short acute teeth.—W. Ill. to Kan. and Tex.
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
Calyx ovate, inflated, closed, with ten black hispid ribs, which branch near the top.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl von Linn?
Resembling the last, but of more compact habit, the leaflets densely resinous beneath and aromatic, and doubly serrate; the short pedicels and pinnatifid sepals hispid.
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
Decumbent, branching only at base, stems 1–2° long, retrorsely hispid; umbels naked, opposite the leaves and nearly sessile, of 2 or 3 very short rays.—Md.,
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
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