CLASS I. 
INDIVIDUAL ABSOLUTE TEIIMS. 
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5. Muricated (muricatus) \ furnished with numerous short hard 
excrescences ; as the fruit of the Arbutus Unedo. 
6. Spiculate (f spiculatus); 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 (^scabridus) ; slightly covered with short hardish 
points ; as the leaf of Thymus Acinos. 
9. Tubercled (tuber culatus^ verrucosus) \ covered with little ex- 
crescences or warts ; as the stem of Cotyledon tuberculata, 
the leaf of Aloe margaritifera. 
10. Pimpled (papillosus, f 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 shorty weak, thin hairs; as the 
leaf of Prunella vulgaris, Daucus Carota. 
12. Downy {^pubens, pubescens) \ covered with very short, weak, 
dense hairs ; as the leaves of Cynoglossum officinale, Lonicera 
Xylosteum, &c. Pubescens is most commonly employed in 
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, villosus) ; covered with long weak hairs ; as 
Epilobium hirsutum. 
15. Tomentose (tomentosus) \ 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 (hispidus); covered with long rigid hairs; as the 
stem of Echium vulgare. 
19. Floccose (Jloccosus) ; covered with dense hairs, which fall 
away in little tufts; as Verbascum floccosum, and pulveru- 
lentum. 
20. Glandular (glandtdosus) ; covered with hairs bearing glands 
upon their tips ; as the fruit of Roses, the pods of Adeno- 
carpus. 
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