CHAPTER XXVIII 



SEED-BEARING PLANTS (Continued) 



ANGIOSPERMS 



398. Essentials of a Flower. Reduced to its lowest 

 terms, a flower is a branch bearing sporophylls. The 



FIG. 330. Inflorescences of Job's tears (Coix lacrima-Jobi), one of the 



Gramineae. 



latter may be microsporophylls only, as in the staminate 

 cone of Pinus (Fig. 306), which is thus seen to be, in 



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