AMONG THE WILD. FLOWERS. 
XXYI. 
Our attention has hitherto been given to 
Flowering Plants, including not only those 
which have conspicuous and showy flowers, but 
those also whose corolla is scarcely distinguish- 
able from the calyx owing either to its minute- 
ness or its resemblance in colour, and those in 
which the corolla is wholly wanting; the fact 
being that the essential character of a flowering 
plant is that it should have visible organs of 
fructification,—the calyx and corolla not being 
essential. 
Plants of this kind, with or without the 
ornament and protection of calyx or corolla, 
embrace the great majority of the Vegetable 
Kingdom, and form one of the Zwo Great 
Diwisions in which the entire catalogue of 
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