mucronate
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Empty glumes membranaceous, carinate, acute, unequal; flowering glume slightly longer, 1–3-nerved, 2-toothed, and mucronate or shortly awned between the teeth.
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. dark, with mucronate dark pointed warts; g. running down stem in lines. spissa, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
Nearly smooth; leaflets 8–24, oblong, obtuse, scarcely mucronate; peduncles loosely-flowered; flowers small, more scattered than in the preceding, whitish, the keel tipped with blue; calyx-teeth very short.—River-banks,
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
The first two glumes are empty, thin, keeled, and acute or mucronate.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Leaves � to � in. long, mostly cylindric, straight, rigid, mucronate, crowded, and of a beautiful glaucous-green color.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)
