serrulate

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Seeds 1 or 2, enclosed in a white membranaceous many-cleft aril.—Low evergreen shrubs, with smooth serrulate coriaceous opposite leaves and very small green flowers solitary or fascicled in the axils.

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

Leaves evergreen, oval-oblong to elliptical, 1 to 4 in. long, rather obtuse, sometimes acute, generally rounded at base, serrulate or entire.

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

P. 3-6 cm. exp. even, subumb. glabrous, viscid, rather wavy, tan then whitish; g. crowded, dry, serrulate; s. 8-11 cm. partly hollow, fragile, fibrillose, subequal, white, apex with white meal; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Smooth; leaves oblong-ovate to obovate, with a tapering base, sharply serrulate; petiole slender; color bright green, somewhat rusty beneath.

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

Radical leaves.—Very numerous; two or three feet long; about two lines broad; gracefully flexile; serrulate.

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