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

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

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

Upper end of a Rockweed, Fucus vesiculosus, reduced half or more, b, the fructification.

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

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