none of the higher forms of tissue and organisation which are met with elsewhere. This division includes the lichens, sea-weeds, confervae (green aquatic scum), fungi (mushrooms, dry-rot), &c.
The division of Vascular plants includes the far larger proportion of vegetation, both living and fossil, and these plants are built up of vessels and tissues of various shapes and character.
All plants are divided into (1) Cryptogams, or Flowerless, such as mosses, ferns, equisetums, and (2) Phanerogams, or Flowering. Flowering plants are again divided into those with naked seeds, as the conifers and cycads (gymnosperms), and those whose seeds are enclosed in vessels, or ovaries (angiosperms).
Angiosperms are again divided into the monocotyledons, as the palms, and dicotyledons, which include most European trees.
Thus:--
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| (M.A. Brongniart). | |(Lindley). |
|CELLULAR | | |
| Cryptogams (Flowerless) |Fungi, seaweeds, |Thallogens |
| | lichens | |
| | | |
|VASCULAR | | |
| Cryptogams (Flowerless) |Ferns, equisetums, |Acrogens |
| | mosses, lycopodiums| |
| Phanerogams (Flowering) | | |
| Gymnosperms (having |Conifers and |Gymnogens |
| naked seeds) | cycads | |
| Two or more Cotyledons | | |
| Angiosperms (having | | |
| enclosed seeds) | | |
| Monocotyledons |Palms, lilies, |Endogens |
| | grasses |
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