Plants are classified into several different types including the mosses and liverworts (Bryophyta), the clubmosses and horsetails, the ferns (seedless Tracheophyta), and the gymnosperms and angiosperms (seed plants). Only the last group the angiosperms have flowers.
Slapstick is a descendent of the comic routines of Italian commedia dell'arte (mid-fifteenth to mid-seventeenth century) touring players, who developed basic plot scenarios and broad, swiftly drawn characters.
Much of the humor in a commedia presentation was produced by one character beating another. The prop used to administer these beatings was called a batacchio or bataccio -- a slapstick in English. It was supposed to produce more sound than pain.