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Manual of the Southeastern Flora

John Kunkel Small

Copyright - UNC Press 1998, 1999. All Rights Reserved.


CLASS 1. GYMNOSPERMAE CONE-PLANTS


Carpel or pistil represented by a scale on the face of which the ovules are borne, and on which the naked seeds mature.


Plants growing by single terminal bud or sometimes with adventitious buds, when with pinnate leaves, circinate in bud.