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GLOSSARY 
Rotate, wheel-shaped. 
Rudiment, an imperfectly developed 
organ. 
Scape, a leafless flowering stem 
arising from the ground. 
Serrate, toothed or with a saw-like 
edge. 
Smooth, not rough. 
Spike, a flower-cluster in which the 
flowers are sessile along the 
peduncle. 
Sterile, barren, not fertile. 
Stipule, an appendage at base of a 
leaf; stipel, one at base of a leaf¬ 
let. 
Strict, closely upright, not spread¬ 
ing. 
Succulent, juicy or fleshy. 
Superior ovary, one free from the 
calyx. 
Sympetalous or synscpalous, with 
more or less united petals or 
sepals. 
Throat, the upper expanded portion 
or orifice of a corolla-tube. 
Turbinate, top-shaped. 
Two-lipped, cleft into 2 lips, an 
upper and a lower, as the corolla 
of Mimulus or of Sage. 
Umbel, a flat-topped flower-cluster, 
the pedicels proceeding from the 
summit of the peduncle and 
nearly equal. 
Verticil, same as whorl. 
Whorl, borne on an axis in a circle. 
California Wild Grape (Vitis cali- 
fornica Bth.). a, leaf and fruit cluster; 
b, flower, with the calyx lifting; c, 
flower in anthesis. These grapes make 
one of the most finely flavored jellies 
that ever gratified the palate of mortal 
man. 
