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One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

See Cryptogamia.

or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells. Cellular plants, Cellular cryptogams (Bot.), those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and algæ. -- Cellular theory, or Cell theory (Biol.), a theory, according to which the essential element of every tiss…

One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist. Hammond.

Act, or state, of being twice married; deuterogamy. [R.]

A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called horsetails.

Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.

An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.

-- Flowering plants, plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from flowerless plants. -- Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.

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

ning form signifying other, other than usual, different; as, heteroclite, heterodox, heterogamous.

and performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma.

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.

lternation of sexual and asexual or gemmiparous generations; - - in distinction from heterogamy.

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.

ced by the ancient Irish, and found in inscriptions on stones, metals, etc. [Written also ogam.]

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