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On one or the other of these two types the stems of all phanerogamous plants are constructed.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

The lichens and mosses, that develop their foliage beneath the snows, are succeeded by grumina and other phanerogamous plants.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina

Although the lower grades are difficult, and need special books and good microscopes for their study, the higher orders, such as Ferns, may be determined almost as readily as phanerogamous plants.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

There are, at nearly the lowest computation, as many as one hundred thousand species of phanerogamous plants, and the cryptogamous species are thought to be still more numerous.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

There are phanerogamous plants, like Monotropa or Indian Pipe, the roots of which feed mainly on decaying vegetable matter in the soil.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa