The surface of the pileus is coarsely hairy or hispid, the surface becoming more rough with age.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson
Sigmodon hispidus solus new subspecies hispid Cotton Rat Type.
"Mammals Obtained by Dr. Curt von Wedel from the Barrier Beach of Tamaulipas, Mexico"
E. Raymond Hall
The belles of Kisemo are noted for their vanity in brass wire, which is wound in spiral rings round their wrists and ankles, and the varieties of style which their hispid heads exhibit; while their poor lords, obliged to be contented with dingy torn clouts and split ears, show what wide sway Asmodeus holds over this terrestrial sphere-for it must have been an unhappy time when the hard-besieged husbands finally gave way before their spouses.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley