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Gymnosperms, cone-bearers, winged-seed scatterers, older and sterner by far than the soft-leaved, frail-limbed oaks and aspens.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Gymnosperms show evidence for biotic pollination as early as the Triassic period.
Pollination Wikipedia 2009
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Catalogue of the flowering plants and Gymnosperms of Perú.
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The dominant plant families are the Lauraceae, Fagacaeae, Theaceae and Rosaceae, with some scattered Gymnosperms such as Podocarpus imbricatus, Podocarpus neriifolius, and Nageia fleuryi.
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Gymnosperms especially conifers, Bennettitales and cycads and ferns common.
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There were already in the vegetation a number of Gymnosperms, affording more favorable nourishment for Insects than the forests of earlier times; and we accordingly find that class in larger numbers than ever before, though still meagre in comparison with its present representation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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Timber is produced only by the Spermatophyta, or seed-bearing plants, which are subdivided into the Gymnosperms (conifers), and Angiosperms
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In internal structure also the variety of tissue-formation far exceeds that found in Gymnosperms (see PLANTS: _Anatomy_).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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There are two classes of the spermaphytes: I., the Gymnosperms, or naked-seeded ones, in which the ovules (macrosporangia) are borne upon open carpophylls; and II.,
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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Gymnosperms, I consider as a retrograde step in Botanical science.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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