spinulose
- a word derived from spinule.
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The spores are many of them ellipsoidal; some are spherical; all are decidedly spinulose, perhaps might appear plicate-rugulose when dry or shrunken.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
Capillitium of slender loosely-branched threads, 2–3 mic. in thickness, the surface minutely spinulose.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
Fronds one to three feet high, oblong-lanceolate, bipinnate, the upper pinnæ lanceolate, the lower triangular with spinulose teeth.
From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by Tilton, George Henry
Capillitium of long and very slender tubules, proceeding from numerous points of the sporangial wall, loosely branched, forming no evident network, the surface minutely warted or spinulose.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
The peridium is globe-like, sessile, white, minutely spinulose, often converging at the apex; when denuded, smooth or minutely velvety.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
