punctate
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Etymology
Origin of punctate
1750–60; < New Latin pūnctātus dotted, equivalent to Latin pūnct ( um ) point, dot + -ātus -ate 1
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Hypericaceæ, 92 Leaves not punctate with transparent dots.
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 Gray, Asa
P. 2-3 cm. thin, depr. subumb. rugose, punctate, wavy, dusky cinnamon, flesh grey then yellowish; g. adnate, pinkish rufous; s. 2-3 cm. stuffed, rufescent; milk watery, whitish; sp. 5-6.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
P. convex, umb. squamulosely punctate from the umbo, milk-white with densely crowded yellow striae; g. very broad, crowded; s. stuffed, thin, obsoletely annulate below middle. transilvanica, Schulz.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
Leaves punctate under a lens with transparent dots.
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 Gray, Asa
Capsule 10–20-seeded.—Leafy-stemmed perennials, glabrous except the ciliate petioles, not punctate, the leaves all opposite, but mostly in seeming whorls on the flowering branches.
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 Gray, Asa
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