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n. - In former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi.

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  • The advent in 1851 of Hofmeister's brilliant discovery of the changes proceeding in the embryo-sac of flowering plants, and his determination of the correct relationships of...
  • The Cryptogamia are very numerous, so are the Polygamia. —
  • Without cotyledons or lobes to the feed; and confequently not having any feminal leaves: as in the clafs Cryptogamia.
  • In this volume I pass over very lightly the Cryptogamia, Filices, Lichenes, Musci, and Algoe, the ferns, lichens, mosses, etc., referring the reader for full details to...
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