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n. - Formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi.

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  • Terror of the noonstruck by day, cryptogam of each nightly bridable.
  • Gemiasmas produce ague, it is by no means proved that no other cryptogam may not produce malaria.
  • The nitrogen fixation potential of arctic cryptogam species is influenced by enhanced UV-B radiation.
  • To the extreme north is the polar desert where only about 5% of the ground surface is covered by herb – cryptogam communities (Fig. 7.19).
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