Specimens from Iowa showfructifications several centimetres long and wide.
Not rare, on decaying logs, especially of Tilla americana, where in the same place successive fructifications follow each other sometimes for weeks together in the latter part of summer and early fall.
The fructifications are very distinct, not likely to be mistaken for those of any other species; the stipes constitute a very prominent feature in every gathering I have seen.
Fructifications two inches or more in length and half as wide are not infrequent on the lower side of fallen stems in forests of deciduous trees.
More than thirty fructifications have appeared at one time, varying in size from one to twenty cm.
Not until 1791 does anyone write down a particular species as marked by a white plasmodium, and distinguish it from other similar fructifications having similar origin.
The fructifications are in uncovered roundish points, called sori, scattered over the inferior surface of the frond or leaf.
Aspidium, in which the fructifications are covered with shield-shaped indusia; -- called also wood fern.
Before the fructifications were suspected of being seeds the anatomy of these plants was known, and their nature was partly recognized from it alone, though at that time they were supposed to have only fernlike spores.
It has been suggested that the male fructifications of the Bennettiteae and the Pteridosperms show some likeness to the Marattiaceae, but there does not seem much to support any view of phylogenetic connection between them.
A few incomplete fructifications of some species have been known in Europe for many years, but it is only recently that they have been fully known.
Of this group we have unfortunately no remains offructifications in organic connection, so that its actual position must remain a little doubtful till they are discovered.
In Williamsonia, of which we know much less detail, the fructifications stood away from the main axis on long pedicels.
The fructifications were presumably fern sporangia of normal but rather massive type.
Plant of Cycas, showing the main stem with the crown of leaves and the irregular branches which come on an old plant] In their fructifications the Cycads stand even further apart from the rest of the Gymnosperms.
This is owing to Wieland's[12] work on the American species, which has made known the complete organization of the fructifications from a mass of rich and well-petrified material.
In their simpler forms the fructifications then and now resemble each other very closely, but in the more elaborate developments the points of variety are more striking, so that they will be dealt with in the following chapter.
Their fructifications are characteristic, the sporangia being placed in groups of about five to a dozen, and fused together instead of ripening as separate sacs as in the other fern families.
The fructifications of the Calamites were not unlike those of the living types of the family, though in some respects slightly more complex.
To the right the fructifications have been traced by dissection to the rhizomorph strands which produced them.
But fructifications with us in heaven are different from those with men on earth.
It is peculiar in developing its fructifications on the exterior of roots, beneath the soil.
In all the genera, except Cycas itself, the female fructifications are likewise cones, each carpel bearing two ovules on its margin.
Curiously enough, no certain instance of a homosporous Palaeozoic Lycopod has yet been discovered, though well-preserved fructificationsare numerous.
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