cryptogam's Usage Examples:

In cannel coals the prevailing constituents are the spores of cryptogamic plants, algae being rare or in many cases absent.

the gall known as Erineum quercinum, on the leaves of Quercus Cerris, were taken for cryptogamic structures.

The number of different species is estimated at 12,000, of which one-third are phanerogamous,or flowering plants, and two-thirds cryptogamous, or flowerless.

, but much had to be done with the microscope before any real progress was possible, and it is easily intelligible that until the theory of nutrition of the higher plants had been founded by the work of Ingenhouss, Priestley and De Saussure, the way was not even prepared for accurate knowledge of cryptogamic parasites and the diseases they induce.

In the vascular cryptogams and phanerogams it takes place in the spore mother cells and the reduced number is found in all the cells of the gametophyte, the full number in those of the sporophyte.

"The whole subject of fertilization and development of the embryo has been more recently investigated with great assiduity and zeal, as regards both cryptogamous and phanerogamous plants, and details must be sought in the various special articles.

The more common plants in the most characteristic part of this region in southern Arabia are Capparidaceae, Euphorbiaceae, and a few Leguminosae, a Reseda and Dipterygium; palms, Polygonaceae, ferns, and other cryptogams, are rare.

HORSETAIL (Equisetum), the sole genus of the botanical natural order Equisetaceae, consisting of a group of vascular cryptogamous plants (see Pteridophyta) remarkable for the vegetative structure which resembles in general appearance the genera of flowering plants Casuarina and Ephedra.

The flora of Germany comprises 3413 species of phanerogamic and 4306 cryptogamic plants.

Ferns and other cryptogamic plants are in great variety and abundance.

The seeds of the cryptogams or flowerless plants are not true seeds and are properly designated "spores.

The whole subject of fertilization and development of the embryo has been more recently investigated with great assiduity and zeal, as regards both cryptogamous and phanerogamous plants, and details must be sought in the various special articles.

At present 435 species of phanerogams and vascular cryptogams are known; the lower orders have been little investigated.

Synonyms:

plant, plant life, thallophyte, flora,

Antonyms:

fauna,