Carmen wanted to shrivel out of sight.
The leaves shrivel, the plant ceases to grow, and the grapes that are formed also shrivel and die.
The berries do not shrivel up as those do that are affected by the black rot.
Apart from the fact that reckoning from the birth of Christ was by no means universal, and consequently the mass of men were ignorant that there was such a thing as the year 1000, one wonders how that most enduring type of architecture, the Romanesque, reached its maturity among men who thought that the earth itself was so soon to "shrivel like a parched scroll."
In some bamboos they are very numerous from the lower nodes of the erect culms, and pass downwards to the soil, whilst those from the upper nodes shrivel up and form circles of spiny fibres.