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A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia. Henslow.

The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.

Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series.

One skilled in cryptogamic botany.

A plant of the highest class of cryptograms, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia. The Age of Acrogens (Geol.), the age of coal plants, or the carboniferous era.

Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous.

Having no visible sexual organs; asexual. In Bot., cryptogamous.

A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervæ, etc.

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.

of, 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…

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.

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

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.