Terror of the noonstruck by day, cryptogam of each nightly bridable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

Gemiasmas produce ague, it is by no means proved that no other cryptogam may not produce malaria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference

The nitrogen fixation potential of arctic cryptogam species is influenced by enhanced UV-B radiation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation] Reference

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).    From Wordnik.com.  [Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on structure of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term] Reference

Universally, the germ precedes the tree, as the tree precedes the seed, in all vegetal growths, from the lowest cryptogam to the lordliest conifer of the Pacific slope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference

This observer claimed to have discovered in the cankerous secretions the existence of a vegetable parasite (namely, a cryptogam, as in favus), which he termed the keraphyton, or parasitic plant of the horn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference

To the north of this zone is the high Arctic, which consists of polar semi-desert communities (Fig. 7.18) in the south, characterized by cryptogam – herb, cushion plant – cryptogam, and, to a limited extent, mire communities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on structure of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term] Reference

The insect which seeks it does not come from a distance; it inhabits the places wherein the cryptogam is found.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference

To seek it myself, by digging at random, would have resulted merely in waste of time; the little cryptogam is not so common that I could hope to find it without a guide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference

The cryptogam, formed of spherical cells with a few filaments only, grows in the hair follicles and on the cuticle, and thus a crust often forms around the root of a hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

Now these points, where my eyes divined the cryptogam pushing back the soil with its button-like heads, these points, where the ordinary fungoid odour was certainly very pronounced, were never selected by the dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference

The inhabitants of the poplar have disappeared, perhaps long ago, as is proved by the mycelium of the agaric; the insect would not gnaw and bore its way through timber all permeated with the felt-like growth of the cryptogam.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles] Reference

The forgotten training soon comes back to our invaluable auxiliary; a mere twitch of the ear is a sufficient hint for her to retire at the right moment, and wait for the corn that is in variably given in exchange for the cryptogam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference

Mammal, amphibian, coleoptera, dicotyledon, cryptogam, -- all these terms, which, if they were translated into the language of a peasant, would be seen to record very simple observations, yet do lend a kind of formal majesty to ignorance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance Two Lectures] Reference

The still wider evolution, not of solitary individuals, but of all the individuals within each province -- in the vegetal world from the unicellular cryptogam to the highest phanerogam, in the animal world from the amorphous amœba to Man -- is at least suspected, the gradual rise of types being at all events a fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Law in the Spiritual World] Reference