phanerogamic
- a word derived from phanerogam.
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Flora.—The flora of Germany comprises 3413 species of phanerogamic and 4306 cryptogamic plants.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
New Zealand abounds with diclinous plants and trees; and Dr. Hooker calculates that out of about 756 phanerogamic plants inhabiting the islands, no less than 108 are trees, belonging to thirty-five families.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Darwin, Charles
Almost all the phanerogamic plants are dependent for their development upon the direct light and heat of the sun.
From Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science by Ackland, T. S. (Thomas Suter)
But no one is thus led to doubt that it is a general law of nature that phanerogamic plants should produce flowers, and that these flowers should produce seed.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
In white-spored species the spores are white in all the individuals, not mutable as the colour of the pileus, or the corolla in phanerogamic plants.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
