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P. very thin, orbicular, sinuate, subsessile, base reticulately-fibrillose; g. simple, unequal; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Sporangium very large, obovoid-oblong, stipitate or subsessile; the wall a greatly thickened membrane, polished and shining within and without, from alutaceous or pale umber to dark-brown in color, destitute of lime.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

The spikelets are 1/6 to 1/4 rarely 1/3 inch long including the awn, subsessile and somewhat on one side on the branches, obscurely articulate but persistent on the pedicels, pale or green, lanceolate.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

The spikelets are glabrous, ovate-oblong, acute, 1/8 inch, 1- or 2-seriate, subsessile, pale green, occasionally purplish on one side.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Otherwise much as Euphrasia.—Herbs, with opposite sessile leaves, and subsessile flowers, in the upper axils and in a terminal leafy spike.

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