fructification
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The cup, or shield-shaped spot, or knob, which bears the fructification is named the Apothecium.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Most numerous was Gigartina radula, just in a state of fructification.
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 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
The threads of which they are composed are jointed, and generally unbranched; they are of various tints of blue, red, and green, and, where their fructification has been ascertained, are propagated by cell division.
From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter
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