. Botany for agricultural students . Botany. Fig. 15. — Lengthwise section through the end of a young ear of Corn, showing the spikelets containing the pistillate flowers. h, husk; s, silks of the pistils; b, enlarged bases of the pistils en- closed by bracts; c, cob. Slightly / i.'« Fig. 16. — A spikelet from a young ear of Com to show the two pistil- late flowers. I, the bracts of the flower that develops no pistil. The other bracts belong to the flower having the pistil, r, ovary which becomes the kernel; t, style of the silk; s, the branched stigma; e, glumes; /, lemmas; pa, pal
. Botany for agricultural students . Botany. Fig. 15. — Lengthwise section through the end of a young ear of Corn, showing the spikelets containing the pistillate flowers. h, husk; s, silks of the pistils; b, enlarged bases of the pistils en- closed by bracts; c, cob. Slightly / i.'« Fig. 16. — A spikelet from a young ear of Com to show the two pistil- late flowers. I, the bracts of the flower that develops no pistil. The other bracts belong to the flower having the pistil, r, ovary which becomes the kernel; t, style of the silk; s, the branched stigma; e, glumes; /, lemmas; pa, paleas. The lodicules are very small and are not shown. Very much 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 Martin, John N. (John Nathan), b. 1875. New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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