Monoecious, and bearing their male flowers in catkins, they are readily distinguished from the rest of the catkin-bearing trees by their peculiar fruit, an acorn or nut, enclosed at the base in a woody cup, formed by the consolidation of numerous involucral bracts developed beneath the fertile flower, simultaneously with a cup-like expansion of the thalamus, to which the bracteal scales are more or less adherent. [Please select]
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Thompson remarks that in the Pastime gooseberry "extra bracts are often attached to the sides of the fruit." [Please select]
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The free edges always point away from the root of the fibre, just as do the bracts of a fir cone. [Please select]
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BRACTS, unusual development of, in gooseberries. [Please select]
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BRACTS, unusual development of, in gooseberries, i. [Please select]
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There is a promise of bloom in blushing arbutus buds, a promise even now fulfilled by the first squirrelcups just out of their furry bracts and already calling the bees abroad. [Please select]
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In the garden the chrysanthemums and the loquat trees are still in flower; the poinsettias put forth their showy scarlet bracts and the roses and violets begin to produce their fragrant flowers. [Please select]
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