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The sun flower as a type of flowering plants by Anne B. Jewett, 1890

The Sun Flower as a Type of Flowering Plants by Anne B. Jewett, 1890, Page 4

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1 I have selected the Sun-Flower, - "Helianthus Annuus" as the subject of my thesis, first, on account of its accessibility, being cultivated almost every where. Second, because it illustrates so many different things. In the first place it at once may be taken as a type of all flowering plants, i.e. of the Sub-Kingdom Phanerogamia or Spermaphyta. It illustrates also the principal division of that sub-Kingdom, viz. 17600
 
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