revolute

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Stems ascending, paniculately branched at the summit, many-flowered, white-woolly; leaflets 5, wedge-oblong, almost pinnatifid, entire toward the base, with revolute margins, green above, white with silvery wool beneath.—Dry barren fields, etc.,

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. campan. papillately umb. viscid, centre brown, edge broadly revolute, even, glabrous; g. adnato-decur. wavy, veined, dusky brown; s. wavy, striate, fibrous, yellow, base white-downy, ring black, floccose, deciduous; sp. 14-17 � 7-10.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The cap has a smooth, not polished, surface, and is very irregular, revolute, and deflexed, not honeycombed like the Morel, nor showing the brain-like convolutions of the Gyromitras.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

Cap at first oblong or cylindrical, then campanulate, the cuticle breaking into shaggy fibrous scales, color whitish, the scales generally yellow or yellowish, margin revolute and lacerated, soon becoming black.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

Corolla.—Campanulate; three or four lines long; with five revolute lobes; having a small scale at base, opposite each lobe.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth