ANGEIOSPERM

n._A?n‘ji?-o-spurm. From äyye«lov, a ve el, and omépua, seed. Fr., aug ios per me [Piorry]. 1. The male genital apparatus. [L, 82.] 2. In botany, see ANGEIOSPERMÆ. ANGEIOSPERMÆ (Lat.), n. f. pl. A?n(a%n?)-ji(ge?-i2)-o-?rm)'e(a3-e;). Fr., an gios per mes. Ger., An gios per men. 1. Of Crantz, an order of plants belonging to the Ringentes, corp onding to the Angeiospernia of Linnæus. 2. Of Lindley, a tribe of exogenous plants, including all dicotyledonous plants in which the seed is surrounded by a pericarp (7. e., all the Dicotyledones except the Coniferw). They are further distinguished by the endosperm not being formed until after fertilization, and by the absence of division of the contents of the pollen grain at any time before the completion of the growth of the pollen tube. [B, 34, 35, 75.) The a. were formerly considered as a cla (subcla ) of the province (cla ) Dicotyledones, [B,34, 42.] They are now regarded as a cla or grand subdivision of the phanerogams, com peste both monocotyledons and dieotyledons ‘as subcla es or types. [B, 5, ca Cf. Gymnosperms. The Met as per me of Str as burger are equivalent to a, in the second sense. [B.] The A. include the divisions Poly petalæ, Apetalæ, Achlamydew, and Monopetale, or, as divided by Brogniart, the series Gamopetalæ and Dialypetale (gq. v.). 3. Of Tausch, a tribe of the Monocarp i, comprising a sing! le subtribe, Echinophoreæ, which includes three or four genera. , 170.