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5. Muricated (piuricatiis) ; furnished with numerous short, hard 
excrescences ; as the fruit of the Arbutus Unedo. 
6. Spiculate (t spiculatus) ; covered with fine fleshy, erect 
points. 
7. Rough {scaber, asper, exasperafus) ; covered with hard, short, 
rigid points ; as the leaves of Borago officinalis. 
8. Roughish (scabridus) ; slightly covered with short, hardish 
points ; as the leaf of Thymus Acinos. 
9. Tubercled (tubercidatus, verrucosus) ; covered with little ex- 
crescences or warts ; as the stem of Cotyledon tuberculata, 
the leaf of Aloe margaritifera. 
10. Pimpled {papiUosus, \ papulosus) ; covered with minute tu- 
bercles or excrescences, of uneven size, and rather soft ; as the 
leaves of Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. 
11. Hairy (pilosus) ; covered with short, weak, thin hairs; as the 
leaf of Prunella vulgaris, Daucus Carota. 
12. T) o\s' ny (pubens, pubesce?is) ; covered with very short, weak, 
dense hairs. Pubescens is most commonly employed in Latin, 
but pubens is more classical ; as the leaves of Cynoglossum 
officinale, Lonicera Xylosteum, &c. 
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, villosus) ; covered with long, weak hairs ; as 
Epilobium hirsutum. 
15. T omewtose {tomeyitosus) covered with dense, rather rigid, 
short hairs, so as to be sensibly perceptible to the touch ; as 
Onopordum Acanthium, Lavatera arborea, Szc, 
16. Velvety (yelutiyius) ; the same as the last, but more dense, 
so that the surface resembles that of velvet : as Cotyledon 
coccineus. 
17. Woolly (lanotus); covered with long, dense, curled, and 
matted hairs, resembling wool ; as Verbascum Thapsus, 
Stachys germanica. 
18. Hispid (hispidus) ; covered with long, rigid hairs; as the 
stem of Echium vulgare. 
19. Floccose (J^occosus); covered with dense hairs, which fall 
away in little tufts ; as Verbascum floccosum, and pulveru- 
lentum. 
20. Glandular (glanduloszts) ; covered with hairs bearing glands 
upon their tips; as the fruit of roses, the pods of Adeno- 
carpus. 
