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The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits · Mary Elizabeth Parsons — chapter 121 of 121 · ~153 words · public domain

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Viscid, glutinous; sticky.

Whorl, an arrangement of leaves, flowers, etc., in a circle about the stem, or axis.

* * * * * Transcriber's Notes

Obvious punctuation and spelling errors repaired. Flowers with no common name have a thought break. Inconsistent hyphenation has been repaired.

Page 141 "black-bird" changed to "blackbird". Page 192 "arrow-heads" changed to "arrowheads". Page 324 "horse-mint" changed to "horsemint". Page 164 "over-powering" changed to "overpowering". Page 141 "lace-like" changed to "lacelike". Page 190 "golden-rod" changed to "goldenrod". Page 354 "tooth-like" changed to "toothlike".

The following index entries were repaired:

Large Yellow Lupine, 16[**numbers missing] Lavender Mountain Daisy, [**numbers missing] Lead-Plant, [**numbers missing] Leatherwood, [**numbers missing] Lemonade-Berry, [**numbers missing] Lemon-Lily, [**numbers missing]

In ambiguous cases, the text has been left as it appears in the original book. In particular, the following errors:

endquote missing punctuation paragraph starts with lower-case mismatched square backets mismatched quotes wrong spaced quotes missing paragraph breaks

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