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  1. The term heraceous is treated more fully in the Discussion.

  2. For the purposes of this discussion we have amended our definition of wood as fibrous secondary xylem to include the highly parenchymatized secondary xylem of Coreopsis gigantea. We return to this issue in the last section of the Discussion.

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We are grateful for the assistance we received while carrying out this research. Pete Diamond (formerly with the NC Zoo), assisted with the collection of Xanthorhiza simplicissima, Holly Forbes (UC Berkeley Botanical Garden), provided specimens of Coreopsis gigantea, and Matina Kalcounis-Rűppell (UNC Greensboro) allowed the collection of Mahonia bealei on her property in Greensboro, NC. We are especially grateful to Sherwin Carlquist for his many comments, and for his encouragement during the research and writing process. Fritz Schweingruber, Frederick Lens, James Mauseth, David Remington, Pieter Baas, John Sperry, Philip Garnock-Jones, Katherine Kron, Norm Douglas, and Jian-Yong Wu all provided data or comments that greatly improved the manuscript. Fritz Schweingruber provided access to unpublished data on wood anatomy of the Brassicaceae, some of which is presented in Table 1. This paper is based, in part, on a Thesis submitted by the first author to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in partial fulfillment of the requirements for an M.S. degree. We thank David Remington and Dennis LaJeunesse for providing guidance during this process. Funding for the research was provided by grants from the Student Research Support Fund of the Department of Biology, UNCG. All responsibility for the opinions expressed here rests with the authors.

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Dulin, M.W., Kirchoff, B.K. Paedomorphosis, Secondary Woodiness, and Insular Woodiness in Plants. Bot. Rev. 76, 405–490 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12229-010-9057-5

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