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uit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation. The prevalent fructification of plants. Sir T. Brown.

Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk.

A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.

The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.

or cup-shaped body within which the asci are collected, and which constitutes the mature fructification. The different forms are known in mycology under distinct names. Called also spore fruit.

ionaceous flower, consisting of two petals, commonly united, which incloses the organs of fructification.

The inner envelope of a flower; the part which surrounds the organs of fructification, consisting of one or more leaves, called petals. It is usually distinguished from the calyx by the fineness of its texture and the gayness of its colors. See the Note under Blossom.

The outer part of the fructification of most lichens.

An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.

-- Flower stalk (Bot.), the peduncle of a plant, or the stem that supports the flower or fructification.

formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.

Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc.

A peculiar kind of fructification on certain red algæ, consisting of an external mass of filaments at length separating into tetraspores.

as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oöphore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant.

An organ in certain fungi and lichens, surrounding and enveloping the masses of fructification. Henslow.

A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss.

A genus of plants of the order Filices or ferns. The fructifications are in uncovered roundish points, called sori, scattered over the inferior surface of the frond or leaf. There are numerous species.

flower. -- Proper receptacle (Bot.), a receptacle which supports only a single flower or fructification.

A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.

A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens.