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loth of a shape approaching a semicircle. It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga prætexta. Toga prætexta. Etym: [L.], a toga with a broad purple border, worn by children of both sexes, by magistrates, and by persons engaged in sacred rites. -- Toga virilis Etym: [L.], the manly gown; the common toga. Thi…

Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned. [R.] Sir M. Sandys.

Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.

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

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.

A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

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.

Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids.

See Gastrohepatic.

A marrying eight times. [R.] Chaucer.

The art or process of making photo-electrotypes. Sir D. Brewster.

A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph.

Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca.

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.