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.
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Henriette's herbal is one of the oldest and largest herbal medicine sites on the net. It's been online since 1995, and is run by Henriette Kress, a herbalist in Helsinki, Finland.