serrulate

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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)

Leaves.—Alternate; petioled; oblong; entire or serrulate; four inches or so long.

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

The gills are attached to the stem, with a dark serrulate edge.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

Radical leaves.—Very numerous; two or three feet long; about two lines broad; gracefully flexile; serrulate.

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

Leaves when in pairs semicylindrical, becoming channelled; when more than 2 triangular; their edges in our species serrulate.

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