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dy, by exposing it to the X rays and observing the shadow cast upon a fluorescent screen; cryptoscopy.

A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.

A viverrine animal of Madagascar (Cryptoprocta ferox). It resembles a cat in size and form, and has retractile claws.

A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes. Dryden.

Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticæ; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticæ, in the Supplement.

A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe.

The simple tubular glands of the small intestines; -- called also crypts of Lieberkühn.

Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceæ, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.

A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.…

An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants; the mosses. See Moss, and Cryptogamia.

An Australian name for Marsilea Drummondii, a four-leaved cryptogamous plant, sometimes used for food.

A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing oöspheres, as in the rockweeds (Fucus), and the orders Vaucherieæ and Peronosporeæ.

An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oöphore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it…

nce to the parsley. -- Parsley fern (Bot.), a small fern with leaves resembling parsley (Cryptogramme crispa). -- Parsley piert (Bot.), a small herb (Alchemilla arvensis) formerly used as a remedy for calculus.

Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.

Any plant of the genus Pilularia; minute aquatic cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; -- sometimes called peppergrass.

A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, as iolite.

as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively fine-grained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline.

A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green color.

The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.