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

Achenes 10-ribbed; pappus of rather rigid bristles, not plumose.—Perennial herbs, fibrous-rooted, with broad entire leaves, obscurely or not at all punctate, and cymules of small heads in a thyrse or panicle.

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. obtuse, violet then umber, squamulosely punctate; g. adnate, purple-umber; s. clavato-bulbous, firm, juiceless, reddish violet then pallid. albo-violaceus, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 1.5-2.5 cm. plano-depr. even, shining, black then smoky, glabrous but innately fibrillosely virgate; g. adnate, entirely whitish; s. 3-5 cm. blackish brown, black punctate upwards; sp. rough, 10 � 7.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

It is covered with numerous small punctate scales of the same color, or sulphur yellow above where they are more crowded and larger.

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