The botanical term "Angiosperm", from the Ancient Greek αγγείον, angeíon (bottle, vessel) and σπέρμα, (seed), was coined in the form Angiospermae by Paul Hermann in 1690, as the name of one of his primary divisions of the plant kingdom. This included flowering plants possessing seeds enclosed in capsules, distinguished from his Gymnospermae, or flowering plants with achenial or schizo-carpic fruits, the whole fruit or each of its pieces being here regarded as a seed and naked. The term and its antonym were maintained by Carl Linnaeus with the same sense, but with restricted application, in the names of the orders of his class Didynamia. Its use with any approach to its modern scope became possible only after 1827, when Robert Brown established the existence of truly naked ovules in the Cycadeae and Coniferae, and applied to them the name Gymnosperms.[citation needed] From that time onward, as long as these Gymnosperms were, as was usual, reckoned as dicotyledonous flowering plants, the term Angiosperm was used antithetically by botanical writers, with varying scope, as a group-name for other dicotyledonous plants. COUNT 5
QSN1 What term did Paul Hermann come up with in 1690? ANS1 Angiosperm QSN2 What did Hermann use the term angiosperm a primary division of in the plant kingdom? ANS2 primary QSN3 Who restricted the application of the angiosperm term? ANS3 Carl Linnaeus QSN4 What did Robert Brown establish the existence of in Cycadeae and Coniferae? ANS4 naked ovules QSN5 What is the group-name angiosperm has been used for by botanical writers? ANS5 other dicotyledonous plants