fructification
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The fructification of Ferns is borne on the back or under side of the leaves.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
Any sudden decrease of warmth would be very prejudicial to the progress of vegetation through the successive stages of foliation, inflorescence and fructification.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
With these and reasonable perseverance the structure of the flowers and fructification of most phanerogamous plants and Ferns can be made out.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
Cryptogamia, krip-to-gā′mi-a, n. the class of flowerless plants, or those which have their fructification concealed.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
In its perfect state this germinates and produces the Claviceps fructification.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various