a. Male flowers.
b. Female flowers. (The styles which project beyond the enveloping sheaths form a kind of tassel, popularly called the silks.)
This image is from Indian Corn in Pereira's Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, 1854.

a. Male flowers.
b. Female flowers. (The styles which project beyond the enveloping sheaths form a kind of tassel, popularly called the silks.)
This image is from Indian Corn in Pereira's Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, 1854.