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adj. - Exhibiting or relating to the production (as in violets and pansies) of small inconspicuous nonopening self-pollinating flowers additional to and often bearing more seeds than the showier type

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  • Cruger, Dr., on cleistogamic fertilisation of Epidendrum.
  • The cleistogamic flowers of Viola are used in the discussion on
  • Cruger's case here referred to is doubtless the cleistogamic fertilisation of Epidendrum, etc.
  • One chapter will be devoted to cleistogamic species, and I will just notice your new grass case.
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