acotyledons

Updated: June 27, 2025

Do you know Jussieu divided all vegetables into three great orders Acotyledons, Monocotyledons, and Dicotyledons. It is only under the tropics that ferns attain the dimensions of the one you are looking at; in colder regions their height seldom exceeds a few feet.

Lucien Biart - Adventures of a Young Naturalist