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South Africa's Constitution aments, the editors show how grounded in human rights is the ANC's "long-established tradition of freedom", the book's sleeve note says.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

At the corner by the stile, beyond which the willows were splendid against the blue with silvery aments and golden pollen, they turned by mutual impulse and retraced their steps.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

'When Spring has closed her delicate flowers,' says a bright writer, 'and the multitudes that crowd around the footsteps of May have yielded their places to the brighter host of June, the willow scatters the golden aments that adorned it, and appears in the deeper garniture of its own green foliage.'

Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

But the flowers of this species are only small greenish aments.

Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

There are more male aments to be found on the lower branches than female spikes of flowers, which would tend to aid in cross pollination of the flowers by wind action.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953

The male flowers occur on 3 parted, slender, glandular-hairy aments from the basal portion of the current season's growth.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953

The broad leaves, of a very rich green, grow on stems nearly as long as themselves, and the flowering aments are of a light-red color.

Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

The aments are usually 3-4 inches long with individual flowers consisting of 4 stamens with their surrounding bract and calyx lobes.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953

At the corner by the stile, beyond which the willows were splendid against the blue with silvery aments and golden pollen, they turned by mutual impulse and retraced their steps.

Love and Mr. Lewisham 1906

Pistillate on small globose aments; calyx proper of the floweret, a coarse scale; corolla none; ovary conical; styles 2, flattened, divergent; stigmas acute.

The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891