He divided plants into sexual and asexual, the former being Phanerogamous or flowering, and the latterCryptogamous or flowerless.
A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves.
An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants; the mosses.
Australians and made into bread or porridge, is a kind of cryptogamous plant, with leaves formed of four folioles, like those of a truffle.
Defn: Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases.
That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers.
Defn: A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves.
Defn: A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.
Defn: An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves.
Defn: A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus.
The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.
Defn: An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants; the mosses.
A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.
Note: Spores are produced differently in the different classes of cryptogamous plants, and as regards their nature are often so unlike that they have only their minuteness in common.
Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.
Spores are produced differently in the different classes of cryptogamous plants, and as regards their nature are often so unlike that they have only their minuteness in common.
A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus.
The most remarkable of the Cryptogamous plants are the ferns, some of which become lofty trees; the wood of which is in curious wavy lines, as it appears to be formed by the footstalks of the decayed leaves growing together and becoming woody.
The club-moss called Lycopodium cernuum affords a striking example of a cryptogamous plant universally distributed over all equinoctial countries.
The strobiles or spikes associated with these trees have been variously described as gymnospermous (Renault) or cryptogamous (Groldenberg and Williamson).
Here we have the remarkable fact that the waste macrospores, or larger spores of a species of Cryptogamous plant, occur dispersed in countless millions of tons through the shales of the Erian in Canada and the United States.
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.
Spore, a body resulting from the fructification of Cryptogamous plants, in them the analogue of a seed.
A grain of pollen may be justly likened to one of the simple bodies (spores) which answer for seeds in Cryptogamous plants.
Acrogens, or Acrogenous Plants, a name for the vascularcryptogamous plants, 156.
Even the beginner in botany should have some general idea of what cryptogamousplants are, and what are the obvious distinctions of the principal families.
A glossary or vocabulary of the principal botanical terms used in phanerogamous and vascular cryptogamous botany is appended to this volume, to which the student may refer, as occasion arises.
Cryptogamous plants with a distinct axis or stem, growing from the apex, and commonly not with later increase in diameter, usually furnished with distinct leaves; reproduction by antheridia and archegonia, sometimes also by gemmation.
Again, just as the first half of the earth's story is the age of Invertebrate animals, so it is the age of Cryptogamous plants.
A group of Cryptogamous plants, commonly known as "Horse-tails.
Thus the vegetation of the Palæozoic period consisted principally of the lowly-organised groups of the Cryptogamousor Flowerless plants.
Azote and phosphorus having been abundantly found in several cryptogamous plants, an appeal to chemistry would be useless to determine whether this organized substance belonged to the animal or vegetable kingdom.
On the African soil excessive heat and lengthened drought retard the growth of cryptogamous plants.
In the northern part of the temperate zone, the cryptogamous plants are the first that cover the stony crust of the globe.
An innumerable quantity of cryptogamous plants, among which ferns are the most predominant, cover the walls, and are moistened by small springs of limpid water.
The total number of these gigantic cryptogamous plants amounts at present to 25 species, that of the palm-trees to 80.
We saw on the summit of the Peak no trace of psora, lecidea, or other cryptogamous plants; no insect fluttered in the air.
Thus it would seem that while Sir Francis Bacon was attending a business college and getting himself familiar with the whole-arm movement, so as to be able to write a free, cryptogamous hand, poor W.
In short, the general characteristic of these cold regions is the preponderance of cryptogamous plants.
In the second orCryptogamous series we have also three classes,--(1.
Our oldest land plants thus represent one of the highest types of that cryptogamous series to which they belong, and moreover are better developed examples of that type then those now existing.
The mushroom, like the moss, is a cryptogamous plant; but there is little connection in any way between the two.
In botany, these are cryptogamous plants, which appear under the form of thin, flat crusts, covering rocks and the barks of trees.
It was not even, like that of the coal period, solely or mainly cryptogamous or gymnospermous.
Mitchell, of Philadelphia, issued a more elaborate work, 'On the Cryptogamous Origin of Malarious and Epidemic Fevers.
In conclusion, I would observe that the discovery of the cryptogamous origin of the many disorders of the human system is effecting important changes in their treatment.
If these discoveries and analogies establish, with any degree of certainty, the hypothesis of the cryptogamous origin of the pear tree blight, we have made important progress in laying down true indications for its cure or prevention.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cryptogamous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
