fructification

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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

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

The chill which poverty breathes over the mind is as unfriendly to the unfolding of the intellectual germs, as the icy atmosphere of winter is to the fructification of vegetable seed.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John

Most numerous was Gigartina radula, just in a state of fructification.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

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