Endogenous Plants, or ENDOGENS, a name applied by Lindley to monocotyledons to express an erroneous view of the difference in their usual mode of stem-thickening from that of dicotyledons, and now wholly disused by botanists. See MONOCOTYLEDONS; also DICOTYLEDONS, BARK.
Endogenous Plants
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 339
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