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  • Hairs on a leaf surface
  • Hairs on a bumble bee head, SEM
  • Arabidopsis leaf hairs (trichomes)
  • Stinging hairs on a nettle leaf
  • Worms in horses: bot eggs on hairs.
  • A horse's tail with a few white hairs
  • Cat skin showing hairs, a whisker and their blood supply.
  • Feathery hairs on the top of a plant seed, SEM
  • Cuckoo-pint (Arum maculatum): spathe and spadix with hairs and flowers, fruiting stem, leaf and tuber. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • A fat hunchbacked man with two large warts on his nose with hairs growing out, admires his fashionable wig in a hand-mirror; a grinning barber trims his wig in front of a table on which there are various hair-dressing appliances. Engraving, 1773.
  • Stachys byzantina K.Koch also known as Stachys lanata. Lamiaceae. Lamb's Ears. Distribution: Europe. Its woolly leaves were regarded as a vulnery, to stop bleeding, which it would have done in a manner similar to cotton-wool, allowing platelets to clot on its hairs. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Adiantum venustum D.Don Adiantaceae (although placed by some in Pteridaceae). Himalayan maidenhair fern. Small evergreen hardy fern. Distribution: Afghanistan-India. It gains its vernacular name from the wiry black stems that resemble hairs. Adiantum comes from the Greek for 'dry' as the leaflets remain permanently dry. The Cherokee used A. pedatum to make their hair shiny. Henry Lyte (1576), writing on A. capillus-veneris, notes that it restores hair, is an antidote to the bites of mad dogs and venomous beasts
  • Hair pieces, combs, hair slides and other appliances. Etching.
  • Edwards' "Harlene" for the hair : the great hair dressing : restores the hair... / [Edwards' Harlene Company].
  • A female hair-dresser combing a man's hair. Wood engraving.
  • Asian hair
  • Human hair
  • Caucasian brown hair
  • Human mustache hair
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Hair brain sculpture
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  • Hair brain sculpture
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  • Knot in hair
  • Knot in hair
  • Hair brain sculpture