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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