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1e Gymospermae, Gymmosperms. 
Trees or less frequently shrubs in which the ovules and seeds are 
not surrounded by an ovary wall but are borne naked at anthesis on the 
flat surface or more or less modified sporophylls which, with one 
exception in our region, are formed into cones of various Siges and shapes, | 
and more or less woody at maturity commonly known as needle« or cone- 
bearing trees, The fruit of Taxus is a red cherry-like structure; that 
of Juniperus a modified cone with fleshy scales which have grown together 
in such a way as to resemble a berry. Cotyledons 2=many, usually variable, | 
