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Zea Mays by Herbert M. Prouty, 1886
Zea Mays by Herbert M. Prouty, 1886, Page 14
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12 or on short pedicles. The flowers are borne in from [underlined] eight [/underlined] to [underlined] sixteen rows [/underlined] on the spike. Sometimes there are [underlined] two [/underlined] or [underlined] three spikes [/underlined] that produce grain. Of the [underlined] two flowers [/underlined] in the spikelet [underlined] one [/underlined] is neutral, the other pistillate. [underlined] Pistil-one [/underlined]. [underlined] Ovary [/underlined] globose, naked, one-celled. Style very long, slender and ciliate, persistent. Stigmas [underlined] two, [/underlined] plumose (or feathery) The [underlined] staminate [/underlined] flowers form a panicle, composed of several spikes, and terminal; spikes
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12 or on short pedicles. The flowers are borne in from [underlined] eight [/underlined] to [underlined] sixteen rows [/underlined] on the spike. Sometimes there are [underlined] two [/underlined] or [underlined] three spikes [/underlined] that produce grain. Of the [underlined] two flowers [/underlined] in the spikelet [underlined] one [/underlined] is neutral, the other pistillate. [underlined] Pistil-one [/underlined]. [underlined] Ovary [/underlined] globose, naked, one-celled. Style very long, slender and ciliate, persistent. Stigmas [underlined] two, [/underlined] plumose (or feathery) The [underlined] staminate [/underlined] flowers form a panicle, composed of several spikes, and terminal; spikes
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