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PROCESSES OF SURFACE. 



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4. Bristly (cchinatus) ; furnished with numerous rigid hairs, or straight 

 prickles ; as the fruit of Castanea vesca. 



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5. Muricated (muricatus) ; furnished with numerous short hard excrescences ; 

 as the fruit of the Arbutus Unedo. 



6. Spiculate (f spicidatus) ; covered with fine, fleshy, erect points. 



7. Rough (scaber, asper, exasperatus) ; covered with hard, short, rigid points ; 

 as the leaves of Borago officinalis. 



8. Roughish (scabi~idus) ; slightly covered with short hardish points ; as the 

 leaf of Thymus Acinos. 



9. Tubercled (tuberculatus, verrucosus) ; covered with little excrescences or 

 warts ; as the stem of Cotyledon tuberculata, the leaf of Aloe margaritifera. 



10. Pimpled (papUlosus, f papulosux) ; covered with minute tubercles or 

 excrescences, of uneven size, and rather soft ; as the leaves of Mesembry- 

 authemum crystallinum. 



11. Hairy (pilosus) ; covered with short, weak, thin hairs; as the leaf of 



Prunella vulgaris, Daucus Carota. 



12. Downy (pubens, pvbescens) ; covered with very short, weak, dense hairs ; as 

 the leaves of Cynoglossum officinale, Lonicera Xylosteum, &c. Pubescens 

 is most commonly employed hi Botany, but pubens is more classical. 



13. Hoary (incanus) ; covered with very short dense hairs, placed so closely as 

 to give an appearance of whiteness to the surface from which they grow ; 

 as the leaf of Mathiola incana. 



14. Shaggy (hirtus y vittosus) ; covered with long weak hairs ; as Epilobium 

 hirsutum. 



15. Tomentose (tomento&us) ; covered with dense, rather rigid, short hairs, so as 

 to be sensibly perceptible to the touch; as Onopordum Acanthium, Lavatera 

 arborea, &c. 



16. Velvety (velutinus); the same as the last, but more dense, so that the surface 



resembles that of velvet ; as Cotyledon coccineus. 



17. Woolly (lanatus) ; covered with long, dense, curled, and matted hairs, 

 resembling wool ; as Verbascum Thapsus, Stachys germanica. 



18. Hispid (hispiduA) ; covered with long rigid hairs ; as the stem of Borage. 



19. Floccose (/occo*u*); covered with dense hairs, which fall away in little 

 tufts ; as Verbascum floccosum, and pulverulentum. 



