appressed

Style 3-cleft; spikelets narrow, terete or nearly so, few–many-flowered, the scales closely appressed and the broad wings of the jointed rhachis enclosing the triangular achene.

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 Asa Gray

Perianth.—Of six sepals; the outer minute; the inner about five lines long, appressed to the ovary.

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

A. præ̀cox, L. Culms tufted, 3–4´ high; branches of the small and dense panicle appressed; awn from below the middle of the glume.—Sandy fields, N. J. to Va.; rare.

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 Asa Gray

Gland.—A deep pit, conspicuously prominent on the outside of the petals, covered within by appressed hairs.

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

Each of the small joints is covered with short closely appressed hairs and from the lower end of each joint project several spines.

From Through a Microscope Something of the Science Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope. by Frederick Leroy Sargent