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familiar in this country are enclosed in the tissues of the fruit, 
as in the case of the apple, the plum, or the watermelon. But in 
Cycas the seeds are not enclosed, and this feature has given the 
Fic. 12, Cycas media, 
Seed-bearing leaf (megasporophyll or carpel), 
bearing six naked (i. e. gymnospermous) seeds. Accession No. 4238. 
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name gymnosperm (naked seed) to the entire plant-group to 
which the cycads belong. All gymnosperms, except the genus 
-ycas, bear their seeds on a specialized branch known as the 
