fructification

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The fructification is an urn-shaped spore-case, in this as in most cases raised on a slender stalk.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

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

The fructification forms in the substance of the tips of the frond: the rough dots mark the places where the conceptacles open.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Small plant of Chondrus crispus, or Carrageen Moss, reduced in size, in fruit; the spots represent the fructification, consisting of numerous tetraspores in bunches in the substance of the plant.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Ferns, with fronds circinate in vernation, bearing the fructification on the under surface or beneath the margin.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa