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Gramineae among monocotyledons may be ranked with Amentiferae among dicotyledons, as representing orders which have retrograded very far from the entomophilous forms from which they were possibly and probably descended "(p. 266).
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Two years later Miss Benson gave an account of a similar phenomenon in certain Amentiferae ( "Trans.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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