"A species of report," said Donal, "very likely to arise by a kind of cryptogamic generation!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donal Grant, by George MacDonald] Reference

Islands; and the Reverend J.M. Berkeley has described my cryptogamic plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

These closed cryptogamic communities occur in protected areas at lower elevations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antarctic Peninsula] Reference

Their affinities and analogies to other cryptogamic families, and to the Phanerogamia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

Began as aid in cryptogamic botany, United States National Herbarium, 1899, and is now associate curator of the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

After this fact one need not be surprised at the diffusion of the far lighter and smaller sporules of cryptogamic plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

The more extensive and largely cryptogamic vegetation on the central peak had a poor fauna probably composed mainly of micro-arthropods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ascension scrub and grasslands] Reference

In the botanical department we have first sea, afterwards land plants; and amongst these the simpler (cellular and cryptogamic) before the more complex.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference

The cool and moist conditions of these Fokienia forests often promote lush growth of cryptogamic epiphytes and an accumulation of organic litter on the forest floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Annamites rain forests] Reference

Of flowering plants there are, as far as at present is known, 185 species, and 40 cryptogamic species, making together 225; of this number I was fortunate enough to bring home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Some of the cryptogamic plants form considerable articles of commerce, particularly as food plants, affording gelatinous and amylaceous matter, and being useful in medicine and the arts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

Thus ever in gloom, yet in a state of constant safety from storms and the agitations of the upper air, the thousand forms of low organic life and cryptogamic vegetation live and thrive in peace and quietness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference

Temperate rain forest, covering less than 30% of the area below the treeline, is characterized by the dominance of Antarctic tree species, a generally low diversity of higher plants and a rich cryptogamic flora.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia] Reference

But it is a curious phenomenon in the old-book trade, that rarities do not always remain rare; volumes seeming to multiply through some cryptogamic process, when we know perfectly that no additional copies are printed and thrown off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference

Innumerable experiments, as well as phenomenal facts, attest the truth of this genesis of life, while the researches of Professor Bastian and other eminent materialists, made in infusorial and cryptogamic directions, confirm rather than discredit it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference

So we had to go home without our cryptogamic prize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spare Hours] Reference

At the cryptogamic flora of the State, we must only glance.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Carolina and its Resources.] Reference

My cryptogamic collection was sent to Berkeley; it was not large.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

Her work in cryptogamic botany gained the respect of botanists for Wellesley.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Wellesley] Reference

About cryptogamic filaments, remember Dr.C. says that the unopened flowers habitually set fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

This is one of the mysteries of the cryptogamic kingdom, which no one has yet been able to explain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference

Poduras feed ordinarily on vegetable matter, such as dead leaves and growing cryptogamic vegetation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

One characteristic of cryptogamic vegetation is important for its bearing on the work of the fourth day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science] Reference

They can associate with a moss to create cryptogamic soil, with a patterned, almost three-dimensional appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories] Reference

(winter), comes within the lower limit of the clouds; and in consequence an abundant cryptogamic vegetation and a few flowers cover the summit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Whether on rock or in cryptogamic soil, lichens are easily crushed by a careless step, and it could take hundreds of years for them to become re-established.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories] Reference

The last are eaten to a limited extent; Terra del Fuego, says Darwin, is the only country in the world where a cryptogamic plant affords a staple article of food.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America] Reference

There can be no doubt that these beds owe a considerable portion of the substances of which they consist to grasses, small branching shrubs, and cryptogamic plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference

The flora of the Oolite, like that of New Zealand, seems to have been in large part cryptogamic, consisting of ferns and the allied horse-tail and club moss families.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference

Many of them became marshes, crowded with a most luxuriant cryptogamic vegetation, specially of lycopods and ferns, while the dry grounds waved green with coniferous trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geographical Evolution] Reference

I can see that the simplest cryptogamic are lowest, and I suppose, from their relations, the monocotyledonous come next; but how in the different families of the dicotyledons?.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

’ The Reverend Professor Henslow has published a list of the plants collected by me at the Keeling Islands; and the Reverend J.M. Berkeley has described my cryptogamic plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preface] Reference

Of flowering plants there are, as far as at present is known, 185 species, and 40 cryptogamic species, making altogether 225; of this number I was fortunate enough to bring home 193.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XVII] Reference

The oldest transition strata, as we have already observed, contain merely cellular marine plants, and it is only in the devonian system that a few cryptogamic forms of vascular plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference

See, on cryptogamic and other wood plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference