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Sertes J, 
FLOWERING OR PHENOGAMOUS PLANTS. 
Plants producing flowers and seeds; the former consisting, at least, of stamens and 
pistils, which may be together in the same flower, or they may separately form staminate 
and pistillate flowers growing on the same individual, or different individuals of one 
species; the latter containing a germ, or embryo. 
Cuass I.—Exocens or DICOTYLEDONS. 
Stems consisting of pith in the center, bark on the outside, and between these, fibrous 
or woody tissue, which, in perennial stems, increases from year to year by the addition of 
layers on the outside next the bark. Embryo usually of two opposite cotyledons, or rarely 
with several in a whorl 
Svs-cLass L—ANGIOSPERMS, 
Pistil consisting of a closed ovary which forms the fruit. Cotyledons two. 
