hispid

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Heads rather larger, the outer scales 12–20, mostly exceeding the inner, slender and hispid; achenes with 2 short acute teeth.—W. Ill. to Kan. and Tex.

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

Flowers on pedicels 2-5 mm. long; stem hispid or bristly Puccoon, Lithospermum gmelini. 17a.

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

Resembling the last, but of more compact habit, the leaflets densely resinous beneath and aromatic, and doubly serrate; the short pedicels and pinnatifid sepals hispid.

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

Like other trees with hispid foliage, the juniper has the special attribute of detaining fugitives; but it sometimes shields them as well.

From Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous

R. Virgínica, L. Stem square, with wing-like angles; leaves oval-lanceolate, sessile, acute; calyx-tube and pedicels more or less hispid with gland-tipped hairs; petals bright purple.—Sandy swamps; coast of Maine to Fla., west to northern N. Y.,

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