At the same time, the anatomical structure, where it is open to investigation, confirms the suggestion given by the habit, and shows that these early seed-bearing plants had a real affinity with Ferns.
In Mesozoic times practically all the existing families had appeared; in the Palaeozoic the class was less extensive than formerly believed, a majority of the supposed Ferns of that age having proved to be seed-bearing plants.
Its object shall be the promotion of interest in nut-bearing plants, their products and their culture.
We have given advice conservatively in reply to all inquiries relative to nut-bearing plants, perhaps too much so.
From an educational and scientific standpoint I think the association may be said to have fulfilled creditably its original declaration of purpose, "the promotion of interest in nut-bearing plants, their products and their culture.
The recent discovery that so large a proportion of them were not ferns, but were seed-bearing plants, alters the long-established belief that the ferns reached their high-water mark of prosperity in the Coal Measure period.
As the name Pteridosperm indicates, the group is a link between the ferns and the seed-bearing plants, and as such is of special interest and value to botanists.
A few families bore seeds in a peculiar way, differing widely from most seed-bearing plants of to-day.
On the other hand, a very large part of what the geologist had hitherto called "Ferns" have turned out to be seed-bearing plants, half Cycad and half Fern.
Though the Primary Era was predominantly the age of Cryptogams, we saw that a very large number of seed-bearing plants, with very mixed characters, appeared before its close.
Consequently I will describe tendril-bearing plants by natural families, following Lindley's classification; and this will in most cases keep those of the same nature together.
On the other hand, the tendrils of all tendril-bearing plants, contract spirally after they have caught an object with the following exceptions.
It may be added, as serving to sum up the foregoing views on the origin of tendril-bearing plants, that L.
Permian Age d~ River mud in which are preserved many impressions of ferns and cone-bearing plants, insect wings, raindrop pits and tracks of salamander-like animals.
This fossil flora consists principally of ferns and small cone-bearing plants, all of which were relatively dwarfed in size and appear less dense than those of corresponding age found in eastern America.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bearing plants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
