hispid

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P. 3-7 cm. more or less fan-shaped, whitish or yellowish-buff, cuticle gelatinous, rather hispid; g. anastomosing behind, white then reddish, veined; s. 1-3 cm. reddish, hispid; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Receptacle flat, the scarious chaff falling with the nearly terete wingless and beakless achenes; pappus of 2 stout subulate retrorsely hispid awns.—Smooth herbs, with opposite dissected leaves and pedunculate heads of yellow flowers.

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

Ovary and fruit bristly or hispid — 17. 16b.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan

The first glume is chartaceous, laterally compressed, obscurely 4-nerved, glabrous below, hispid near the apex, minutely 2-toothed or not at the apex, not awned or rarely with a short awn.

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

Others have hispid awns by which they would become attached to the feathers of birds, and there is no doubt this is an effective mode of dispersal.

From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Wallace, Alfred Russel