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Acotyledones
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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the name given by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789 to the lowest class in his Natural System of Botany, embracing flowerless plants, such as ferns, lycopods, horse-tails, mosses, liverworts, sea-weeds, lichens and fungi. The name is derived from the absence of a seed-leaf or cotyledon. Flowering plants bear a seed containing an embryo, with usually one or two cotyledons, or seed-leaves; while in flowerless plants there is no seed and therefore no true cotyledon. The term is synonymous with Cryptogams, by which it was replaced in later systems of classification.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Acotyledones'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/acotyledones.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Acotyledones'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/acotyledones.html. 1910.
