flexile
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Second—The Star Tulips, having low, flexile stems, erect, starlike flowers, with spreading petals, and nodding capsules.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
P. 1-2 cm. campan.-convex, exp. obtuse, hygr. even when dry, glabrous, cinnamon then pale; g. adnate, crowded; s. 3-5 cm. rigid, flexile, glabrous; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Staminate catkins.—Two to ten inches long, consisting of a flexile chain of funnel-form bracts, depending one from another; each having six flowers like clappers.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Radical-leaves.—Strongly ribbed underneath; dark, shining green above; one to three feet long; three to eight lines broad; flexile; rosy pink at base.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
P. 1.5-2.5 cm. conico-campan. papillate, striate, somewhat bay; g. adnate, ascending; s. 3-7 cm. equal, flexile, even, reddish; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
