Re: Lost and Wet
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- Subject: Re: Lost and Wet
- From: C* T* <c*@jeffco.k12.co.us>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 12:29:03 -0600 (MDT)
Christopher Hollinshead wrote:
>
> T.C. wrote:
Is their a key or directory of terms anywhere on line?..
>
> Chris replies:
> At the Canadian Iris Society (CIS) website there is available a full glossary of iris terminology The URL to go directly to the glossary is: http://tor-pw1.netcom.ca/~cris/CIS/glossary.html
I visited the CIS glossary page on Chris' kind suggestion, (and
clickable URL..I don't know how to do that yet!)
Is anyone else surprised by the two following definitions?"
"Fluting: gentle dips and rises in the petal edges.
"Spur: a short side stem which may or may not be near the top of the
Stigmatic lip: the lip like petal under the style crest which receives
the pollen."
That's not how I have understood those terms. I'm especially having
trouble visualizing a spur next to a stigmatic lip. Seems to me it would
be too heavy for the petal and distort the flower pretty to the point of
'fault'.
Is that what's really meant?
Carol Townsend, in Denver, almost caught up with my mail, pant pant,
ctownsen@jeffco.k12.co.us
