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adj. - Of or relating to a plant reproducing by means of spores and not producing flowers or seed (as ferns, mosses, algae, or fungi)

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  • It was the NARDOU, a cryptogamous plant of the family
  • They are followed again by higher cryptogamous plants, especially ferns and club-mosses.
  • It must be remembered, too, that the Algae are cryptogamous, and bear no visible flowers to delight the eye or fancy.
  • = -- The preceding illustrations have been taken from flowering plants chiefly, but a similar defective development is manifested in cryptogamous plants.
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