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Cryptogamia

noun
(pl. cryptogamiae)
1.
In former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi.





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"Cryptogamia" Quotes from Famous Books



... trailing stem, not unlike the common ivy, but not so woody, by which it attaches itself to the trunks of trees, and sucks the moisture which their bark derives from the lichens and other cryptogamia, but without drawing nourishment from the tree itself, like the misletoe and loranthus. The Indians in Mexico propagate it by planting cuttings at the foot of trees selected for that purpose. It rises to the height of 18 or 20 feet; the flowers are of a greenish ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds


Words linked to "Cryptogamia" :   Phanerogamae, division, Plantae, plant kingdom, kingdom Plantae


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