A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

incanus,-a,-um (adj.A): incanous; hoary, white; very gray, quite gray; hoary (as in age)”(Jackson) [> L. “in-“ (intensifier) + “canus,” white-gray]; syn. canus,-a,-um (adj.A), q.v., “gray-white; [in botany] a term applied to hairy surfaces” (Lindley);

- herbae erectae, pilis adpressis medifixis conspersae v. incanae (B&H), erect herbs, sprinkled with appressed hairs attached at the middle, or gray.

- S. canescens: var. incana: in lignis duris siccis liinc inde obvia, cinerea est, parum virescens, passim fuscella (S&A), on hard, dry wood encountered here and there, is ash-gray, somewhat greenish, all over a light blackish-brown.

- [lichen] thallus supra laevis vel saepius tenuiter nigricanti-furfuraceus, subtus cinereus vel albo-cinereus denseque breviter incano-tomentellus (Nyl.), thallus smooth above or more often thinly grayed-black-furfuraceous [i.e. covered with soft scales], beneath ash-gray or white-ashen gray and also densely, shortly rather dark whitish-gray tomentellous.

- folia integerrima, coriacea, elevato- penninervia, subtus saepius incana tomentella sericea, rarius glaberrima (B&H), the leaves completely entire, leathery, with elevated pinnate nerves, underneath rather often quite gray, tomentellous, silky, less often completely hairless. - foliis petiolatis supra glabris subtus tomentoso-incanis (DeCandolle), with the leaves petiolate, glabrous [i.e. hairless] above, underneath tomentose-incanous.

- foliis inferioribus petiolatis subovatis parvis tomentoso-incanis (DeCandolle), with the lower leaves petiolate, somewhat ovate, small, tomentose-incanous.

- ramis junioribus villoso-tomentosis incanis (DeCandolle), with the younger branches villous-tomentose, incanous.

- caulibus procumbentibus adscendentibus tomentoso-hirsutis subincanis (DeCandolle), with the stems procumbent, ascending, tomentose to hirsute, somewhat incanous.

- pedunculis calycibusque piloso - tomentosis incanis (DeCandolle), with the pedicels and calyces very gray-tomentose.