polycotyledonous

Some of these cases may be accounted for by chorisis or by a cleavage of the original cotyledons, as happens, according to Duchartre, [424] in some Coniferæ, which he considers to be improperly termed polycotyledonous.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Next, omitting another inconspicuous tribe, there follows a very important class, the gymnogens — polycotyledonous trees, represented by the comferæ and cycadaceæ.

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The Old Red flora seems to have been prevailingly an acrogenic flora; and yet with almost its first beginnings, -- contemporary with at least the earlier fossils of the system in Scotland, we find a true polycotyledonous tree, not lower in the scale than the araucarites of the Coal Measures, -- which in structure it greatly resembles, -- or than the pines or cedars of our own times (see Fig. 3).

The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829

Gymnogens, -- polycotyledonous trees, represented by the conifers; and cycadaceæ.

The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829

a gymnospermous or polycotyledonous tree, and which we find associated with remains of Coccosteus and Diplacanthus.

The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829