. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 601. Ears from the stalks shown in Fig. 60O. desiccation and controls the normally high rate of transpiration, or water loss. Flowers.— The flowers of maize are arranged in clusters in two difl'erent parts of the plant. The male (staminate) flowers together form the termi- nal tassel of the plant, while the female (pistillate) flowers (Fig. 515) are placed on the cob, sur- rounded by the husks in the axils of the lower, or usually the middle leaves of the stem. The stami- nate flower cluster is known as a panicle of spike- lets. Each
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 601. Ears from the stalks shown in Fig. 60O. desiccation and controls the normally high rate of transpiration, or water loss. Flowers.— The flowers of maize are arranged in clusters in two difl'erent parts of the plant. The male (staminate) flowers together form the termi- nal tassel of the plant, while the female (pistillate) flowers (Fig. 515) are placed on the cob, sur- rounded by the husks in the axils of the lower, or usually the middle leaves of the stem. The stami- nate flower cluster is known as a panicle of spike- lets. Each ultimate division of the tassel (pani- cle) is a spikelet. Each spikelet consists of two dry scales (lower glumes) .subtending two flowers of three stamens each. Each staminate flower is surrounded by a flowering glume (lemma) and a palea on the inside. When the anthers are mature, they dangle at the ends of long filaments, and thus the dry, smooth pollen-grains are consigned to the wind. The pistillate flowers are placed in even- numbered rows on the fleshy axis known as the cob. Each spikelet on this axis consists of two flowers, subtended by two glumes more or less horny or leathery. One pistillate flower is abortive and is represented solely by a flowering glume and a palea, while the other pistillate flower, with sub- tending, flowering glume and palea, has an ovary surmounted by a long, hairy style, showing, under the microscope, two longitudinally directed vascu- lar bundles. Each style, or thread of silk, is hairy, to entrap the round, smooth pollen-grains, which. Fig. 602. Early - maturing low-growing corn adapted to North Dakota and the northern states. It may yield forty or more bushels per acre. (Hartley.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954,
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