scarious

adj

1. thin, dry, membranous, and not green

   “A polymorphous plant, with larger (frequently three lines in diameter), more globose and racemose heads, and more scarious involucres than any form of A. vulgaris.”

2. thin, dry, membranous

   “Gray head goggling fowlwise on a scarious neck, turning.”

3. scaly, scurfy