a. [T]he reins of their (Moors) horses were as fire, their faces black as pitch, their eyes shone like burning candles, their horses were swift as leopards and the riders fiercer than a wolf in a sheepfold at night . . .
Appearance. A taproot has a main root, similar in appearance to a carrot, which is also a taproot. In most cases, smaller, auxiliary roots grow laterally all along the main taproot. A fibrous root system is a mass of small roots, with an appearance of a mass of fibers. It can resemble a bird's nest or a ball of yarn. The roots are typically only a few inches long and branch frequently, similar to the canopy of a tree.
Same goes with the seedless vascular plants (spike mosses, club mosses, horsetails, whisk ferns, true ferns). The main difference between these groups is that the SVP's have tracheids (a basic vascular system) whereas the bryophytes do not. The seed plants are the gymnosperms and the angiosperms.