Represented by only one living genus, Equisetum, these seedless vascular plants have leaves in whorls

around a photosynthetic stem that is stiff and gritty because they accumulate silica in their tissues



a. mosses
b. whisk ferns
c. ferns
d. club mosses
e. horsetails


E

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