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Phanias separated flowerless plants such as ferns, 

 mosses and fungi from flowering plants ; and it was only 

 eighteen centuries later that this important distinction 

 was revived. 1 



1 G. Bonnier, Le monde vegetal, Flammarion, Paris, 1907, 

 p. 38. 



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