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AMENTIFERAE, or AMENTACEAE

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 805 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMENTIFERAE, or AMENTACEAE , 'a name which has been used. to include in one class several natural orders of See also:plants which See also:bear their See also:flowers in catkins (amenta). They are trees and shrubs chiefly of temperate climates, and include many See also:common See also:British trees. It comprised the following orders:—Salicaceae, willows and poplars; Corylaceae, See also:hazel, See also:hornbeam; Betulaceae, See also:birch, See also:alder; Fagaceae, See also:oak, See also:beech, , See also:chestnut; Casuarinaceae, .See also:Casuarina (beefwood); Platanaceae, See also:plane; Juglandaceae, See also:walnut; Myricaceae, See also:bog See also:myrtle. This class is not retained in the most See also:modern systems of See also:classification.

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