tuberculate

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Leaves often retuse; calyx-lobes obtuse in the bud; petals small or minute; style shorter, 3–4-cleft; seeds larger, sharply tuberculate; otherwise like the last.—Ark. to Tex. and westward; reported from Kan., Iowa, and Minn. 2.

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

It is smooth, shining, the margin furrowed and tuberculate.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

Thallus 3–6´´ long, 1–3´´ wide, with membranous margins; receptacle small, hemispherical, 1–4-fruited, the peduncle about 1´ high, sparingly scaly at base, barbulate at the apex; involucre short, crenulate; spores tuberculate.

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

Specimens of H. g. gulonella collected in the Arkansas River at Pueblo and Florence, Colorado, on September 7, 1959, include some tuberculate males, although most females are spent.

From Geographic Variation in the North American Cyprinid Fish, Hybopsis gracilis by Cross, Frank B.

Incisors, 4/6 or 6/6; the lower ones slanted; the canines large and curved outwards and upwards; molars tuberculate; four toes on each foot—that is, two major and two minor, each hoofed.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage