hispid

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P. 5-7 cm. obtuse, honey colour, hispid with crowded simple black fibrils; g. dingy yellow; s. bulbous, with a lax reticulation of black fibrils; sp. ——. arenatus, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

They are all hispid plants, very disagreeable to handle, and are generally of rank growth.

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

Receptacle flat, the scarious chaff falling with the nearly terete wingless and beakless achenes; pappus of 2 stout subulate retrorsely hispid awns.—Smooth herbs, with opposite dissected leaves and pedunculate heads of yellow flowers.

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

P. 3-5 cm. convex, edge incurved, delicately hispid or scurfy, yellow, fixed by cottony mycelium, stem obsolete; g. rather broad, ventricose, pale tan, edge whitish; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

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