revolute

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Perianth-segments strongly revolute Turk's-cap Lily, Lilium superbum. 18b.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan

Cap with border revolute, i. e., rolled backward.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

P. subumb. exp. revolute, undulate and irreg. lobed, even; g. rather distant; s. slender, wavy, naked, root creeping, branched, fibrillose.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Capsule large, distinctly pedicelled, dehiscing by 4–8 revolute segments.

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

White-woolly throughout, low; stem very leafy; leaves all pinnately parted into rigid narrowly linear and elongated, sometimes again pinnatifid divisions, with revolute margins; flowers cream-color.

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