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Same as Ogham.

Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous.

Characterized by allogamy.

Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

A nonmotile gamete, found in certain lower algæ.

Relating to apogamy.

The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oöspore. De Bary.

Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.

Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.

The state of a communty which permits promiseuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.

ce been found to occur regularly in the families Betulaceæ and Juglandaceæ. Partial chalazogamy is found in Ulmus, the tube here penetrating the nucleus midway between the chalaza and micropyle. --Chal`a*zo*gam"ic (#), a.

Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization. Darwin.

its members; -- as in certain primitive tribes or communistic societies. [Written also cenogamy.]

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.

One who marries the second time.

A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy. Goldsmith.

Manifesting dichogamy.