cryptogamous
Americanadjective
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Even the beginner in botany should have some general idea of what cryptogamous plants are, and what are the obvious distinctions of the principal families.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
Paraphysis, pa-raf′i-sis, n. an erect sterile filament accompanying the sexual organs of some cryptogamous plants:—pl.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Fern, fern, n. one of the beautiful class of higher or vascular cryptogamous plants—the natural order Filices.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Ever since fossil plants have been collected and studied, the broad fact has been apparent that the early plants—those of the Coal formation—were mainly cryptogamous, while in the Tertiary deposits the higher flowering plants prevailed.
From Darwinism (1889) by Alfred Russel Wallace
A division of cryptogamous plants, including mushrooms, etc.
From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Lorin Low Dame
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