The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle.
Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs.
Shagbark Hickory Leaves (1/3X)] The degree of pubescence on the surface of the twigs varied considerably and was found to frequently follow group location patterns.
Thus nearly all of the individuals growing in one field might be found with dense pubescence on the twigs while a similar group several miles away might have, for all practical purposes, no pubescence on the twigs.
In general, the most rapidly growing trees (or twigs) had the least amount ofpubescence on the twigs.
In all cases the bud scales were observed to be pubescent though the degree ofpubescence varied considerably in the outer scales only.
Leaves unusually large, dark green with well-defined ribs showing through the thin pubescence of the under surface; lobes wanting or faint; teeth deep, wide.
Differences in color, size, shape, position and amount ofpubescence of buds must all be noted in describing grapes.
Leaves healthy, thick, dark green, sometimes rugose; veins showing indistinctly through the slightpubescence of the lower surface.
The north-Texas, southwestern Missouri and northern Arkansas form shows little or no pubescence but has fine prickly spines at base of shoots and shows much blue bloom on shoots, canes and the under side of the leaves.
The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle.
Covered with hairs orpubescence so platted together and interwoven as to form a mass easily removed.
Leaves of average size and thickness, healthy, rather light green, slightly glossy; veins well defined, distinctly showing through the thick bronze pubescence of the lower surface.
Leaves healthy, variable in size, rather thick, inclined to dark green, sometimes rugose, with veins showing indistinctly through the slight pubescence of the lower surface.
Those who are most familiar with it are of the opinion that in a general way the leaves increase in thickness southward and that the pubescence diminishes in quantity and becomes stiffer on dry, poor soils.
The variety shows Bourquiniana or Aestivalis in flavor and texture of fruit, in texture and pubescence of leaf, and the bloom on young canes; its tenderness and susceptibility to mildew suggest Vinifera.
American tree (Chrysophyllum Cainito), having a milky juice and oblong leaves with a silky-golden pubescence beneath.
Defn: Covered with hairs or pubescence so platted together and interwoven as to form a mass easily removed.
Leaves and stem glabrous, or with close appressed pubescence =Bush Clover, Lespedeza frutescens.
Stems and leaves gray with a silky pubescence =Aster, Aster sericeus.
Pubescence scurfy or stellate; fruit a globular dry drupe, its base covered with the persistent calyx, forming a 1- to 3-seeded nut.
Leaves alternate, clustered at the ends of the branches, ovate or oval-acuminate, tapering at base, whitish with minute pubescence beneath.
There are some slight differences in the fullness and roundness of the buds and the pubescence of the young leaves.
Positive aberrations are rather rare, and are mostly restricted to a greater density of the [139] pubescence in some hairy species, as in Galeopsis Ladanum canescens, Lotus corniculatus hirsutus and so on.
Or to give a sharper distinction: whiteness of flowers cannot be expected to be interchanged withpubescence of leaves.
This is what might reasonably be expected since the emotion is derived from the sex instinct, and pubescence marks the period of rapid acceleration in the growth of the sex organs.
The pubescence or tomentum is more prominent on the intermediate zones.
The pubescence disappears from the old portions of the cap, so that it is smooth.
It must be remarked, however, that with grasses, as with other plants, the character of pubescence is apt to vary with the situation.
Its ears, lower ridges, very short or obsolete ligule, and pubescence (sometimes glabrous) distinguish it.
Low herbs with entire or toothed leaves, and white or yellow flowers; pubescence often stellate.
Aments more densely flowered and more silvery silky; leaves sometimes retaining a ferruginous pubescencebeneath even when fully grown.
Very prickly, somewhat hoary or yellowish with a copious wholly stellate pubescence (1--2 deg.
Differs in its more glandular pubescence above, the often blunter and less toothed leaves abruptly contracted to shorter petioles, flowers erect, paler seeds with a slight prolongation at top, and a merely dingy coma.
From Alkemelyeh, the Arabic name, having reference to the silky pubescence of some species.
This kind of pubescence has usually been denominated sericeous (sericea); but it certainly does not resemble silk; and is very different from the proper sericeous splendour, exhibited by Cryptocephalus sericeus.
Shell smooth, dark brown, with a slight pubescence about the point.
Nut large; shell light brown, smooth, with a slight trace of pubescencenear the tip.
Leaves not yellow green beneath; base of the petiole of the terminal leaves not enlarged, petioles smooth, or if pubescent at the base the pubescence will be more or less evident the entire length of the petiole.
The species is very variable and no dependence can be placed upon such characters as pubescence of the twigs, leaves or fruit, size of the twigs, color of the anthers, size or shape of the nuts.
The variety is characterized by having a "fulvous pubescence," but the 18 specimens at hand show the color of the pubescence on both young and mature specimens to range from white to fulvous.
The individuals of the several species vary much in respect to their bark, size and pubescence of the twigs, number and size of the leaflets, size and shape of the nuts.
Branchlets and leaves densely covered when they first appear with rusty-brown pubescence 8 C.
The color of the pubescence of the lower surface of the leaves varies from a gray to a yellow-gray.
Quite too much stress is laid upon the value of pubescence on leaves in determining groups, unless comparisons can be made between plants growing in the same habitat.
That is, an active character, in this case pubescence on the fruit, becomes latent and appears to be lost--a type of mutation frequent among cultivated plants.
The peaches are not at all attractive in size, color or shape, are quite too dry of flesh to eat with pleasure out of hand and are made even less agreeable to sight and taste by pubescenceso heavy as to be woolly.
There is a reddish or tawny pubescence on all young shoots, and especially on the bud scales in winter.
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