serrulate

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Embryo straight, nearly as long as the albumen; radicle longer than the cotyledons.—Shrubs with membranaceous deciduous oblong-ovate serrulate leaves, soft-downy beneath, and large short-peduncled flowers solitary in their axils.

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

Often wavy and deformed. clypeatum, L. P. 5-7 cm. campan. then exp. umb. lurid then greyish; g. serrulate; s. 7-9 cm. stuffed, attenuated, fibrillose, pallid; sp. subgl. rough, 9-10. nigrocinnamomeum, Kalchbr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Seeds mostly pendulous.—Shrubs with petioled and serrulate leaves, and white scaly-bracted flowers in dense axillary or terminal spiked racemes.

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

Serrulā′tion, the state of being serrulate; Serrurerie′, ornamental wrought-metal work.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Shrubs or low trees with alternate, simple, exstipulate, ovate, serrulate leaves, soft downy beneath.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)