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Pencil-like (penicillatus) is that sort of hair wliicli has its 

 extremity completely set with small attached hairs. (Tab. I. 

 Fig. 12.) 



When the soft hairs lie thick upon tiie surface, so that 

 they give it a silky or satiny lustre, it is said to be silky (se- 

 riceus) . 



If the soft hairs are complicated, but yet so that the single 

 hairs can be distinguished, the covering is said to be woolly 

 (lanatus, lanuginosus). 



Shag (Jomentum)^ and shaggy (tomentosus), denote that 

 the hairs are so thickly matted together, that the individual 

 hairs cannot be distinguished. The shag is commonly white 

 {tomentum album, candidum, niveum) ; frequently it is hoary 

 {t. canum, incanum) ; less frequently it is rust-coloured 

 {ferrugmewm) ; and still more rarely it is of a golden colour 

 {t. aureum). 



Tufts (flocci) are short, thick, soft, irregularly hispid hairs, 

 as they appear upon the leaves of a great many kinds of Ve?'- 

 hascum^ and upon the corolla of Sccevola. 



Stiff, very short hairs, make the surface hispid {hispidus). 

 When the stiff hairs are somewhat longer, the surface is 

 said to be rough-haired (Jiii'sutus). When the stiff hairs are 

 very long, the surface is said to be rigid Qiirtus). 



When the stiff hairs stand singly, and resemble bristles, 

 the surface is said to be bristly (setosus). "When the stiff 

 hairs spring from a small prominence or knoll, the surface is 

 said to be strigose {stHgosus). 



When hairs, considerably stiff, are crowded together in a 

 heap, the surface is said to be bearded (barhatm). 



Stiff matted hairs form what is called stuppa or tow. The 

 filaments oi Dianella and Hypandra, R. Br., as also the abor- 

 tive buds of Acacia imdulata, W. are stuppece. 



Small, star-shaped hairs constitute the piibcs stcllata. (Tab. 

 VI. Fig. 10. ; Tab. VII. Fig. 7.) 



A coma is formed when long soft hairs arise from the base 

 of an organ, especially from the seed. Scmina comosa Ep'i- 

 lobii^ (Tab. I. Fig. 13.) See another meaning of the term (85.) 



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