fructification
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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 Asa Gray
Cladonia coccinea; the fructification is in the scarlet knobs, which surround the cups.
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
The larger species assumed a complexity in the structure of their stems unknown in their modern congeners, and enabling them to grow to a great height;31 but their foliage and fructification were not correspondingly advanced.
From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Sir J. William Dawson
