Cockscomb

The cockerel's splendid red cockscomb is thought to play a part in determining gender and breed.

And some of the seeds were big flat beans, or little long round beans; and some, like the sweet-peas, were very round, like shot; and some, like the cockscomb seeds, were tiny and shiny and black and so slippery that Prue lost more than she got in her envelope, though she got enough, for there is such a lot of seed on a cockscomb.

She saw a square picture framed in the window, two whitewashed cottages each with a little winding path, a bed of red and yellow cockscomb, a sloping field, a row of gum-trees, a child in a blue sunbonnet carrying a basket.