tuberculate

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The western form has more rigid leaves and more tuberculate and spiny cones.

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

Specimens from the White River in South Dakota, collected on July 7, 1934, include tuberculate males.

From Geographic Variation in the North American Cyprinid Fish, Hybopsis gracilis by Cross, Frank B.

Their shape, almost always spherical in the young plant, becomes ovate, ellipsoidal, fusiform, reniform, smooth, stellate, sometimes tuberculate, or remains globose.

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

The spores are tawny in mass, oval, elliptical, minutely tuberculate when mature, 6–9 × 4–6 µ.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

Leaves often retuse; calyx-lobes obtuse in the bud; petals small or minute; style shorter, 3–4-cleft; seeds larger, sharply tuberculate; otherwise like the last.—Ark. to Tex. and westward; reported from Kan., Iowa, and Minn. 2.

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