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Zea Mays by Herbert M. Prouty, 1886
Zea Mays by Herbert M. Prouty, 1886, Page 13
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11 ish color when growing, and in the more common varieties varies from [underlined] one half [underlined] to [underlined] two inches [/underlined] in diameter at the bottom, very pithy. [underlined] Leaf [/underlined] - [lanciolate?], keeled, rough on the edges, channeled and curves gracefully outward, dark green: [underlined] Sheath [/underlined] - open, nearly the length of joints and pubescent especially at base of ligule. [underlined] Ligule [/underlined] - short and paper like [underlined] Inflorescence [/underlined] - [monotcious?] (sometimes androgynous) Pistillate flowers borne in the axis of leaves and arranged in a single spike; [deuse?] and cylindrical Spiklets [underlined] two [/underlined] - flowered, [sessile?]
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11 ish color when growing, and in the more common varieties varies from [underlined] one half [underlined] to [underlined] two inches [/underlined] in diameter at the bottom, very pithy. [underlined] Leaf [/underlined] - [lanciolate?], keeled, rough on the edges, channeled and curves gracefully outward, dark green: [underlined] Sheath [/underlined] - open, nearly the length of joints and pubescent especially at base of ligule. [underlined] Ligule [/underlined] - short and paper like [underlined] Inflorescence [/underlined] - [monotcious?] (sometimes androgynous) Pistillate flowers borne in the axis of leaves and arranged in a single spike; [deuse?] and cylindrical Spiklets [underlined] two [/underlined] - flowered, [sessile?]
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