punctate

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Leaves punctate under a lens with transparent dots.

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. umbil. squamulose; g. arcuate, white; s. floccosely punctate, base with spreading fawn-coloured down; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Texture.—Succulent, fleshy; scarious, dry and chaffy; punctate, having translucent glands, so that the leaf appears, when held toward the light, as though full of holes; membranous, thin, soft, and rather translucent; thick, thin, etc.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Leaves.—Round-cordate; six to eighteen lines broad; finely crenate; often rusty beneath; usually punctate with dark dots.

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

P. soon dry, virgate with darker fibrils, centre squamulosely punctate, flesh reddish; g. rigid, purplish then changing to cinnamon; s. reticulately striate with darker purple-umber fibrils. erubescens, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George