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 Gray, Asa

This preservation of parts of fructification, and the pollen of coniferae, displays the art with which nature embalms her relics.

From The Bible: what it is by Bradlaugh, Charles

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

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

Cladonia coccinea; the fructification is in the scarlet knobs, which surround the cups.

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