It was the NARDOU, a cryptogamous plant of the family.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

They are followed again by higher cryptogamous plants, especially ferns and club-mosses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality] Reference

It must be remembered, too, that the Algae are cryptogamous, and bear no visible flowers to delight the eye or fancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference

= -- The preceding illustrations have been taken from flowering plants chiefly, but a similar defective development is manifested in cryptogamous plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

This has resulted in a rich vegetation mosaic comprising approximately 1,500 species of flowering plants, including 130 trees, and an estimated 2,200 cryptogamous taxa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Smoky Mountains National Park, United States] Reference

As if to complete the comparison, I found Alpine lichens growing among cactus and palms, and a crust of Arctic cryptogamous growth covered rocks, between which sprang tropical flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

How our oil got beneath their sand must have some cryptogamous connection to the ideology of manifest destiny that has driven this nation to unthinkable crimes against nature and humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peak Oil and the End of Empire] Reference

These cryptogamous organizations are monitoring the resistance and planning a pre-emptive strike against any democracy that shows signs of sprouting and organizing itself into a populist movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strange Language of Capitalism] Reference

Even mentally, we depend a great deal more than we think upon natural laws, and our mind possesses already, like some cryptogamous plant, every little peculiarity that we imagine ourselves to be selecting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within a Budding Grove] Reference

Although the rains were not quite over, great numbers of pools were drying up, and the ground was in many parts covered with small green cryptogamous plants, which gave it a mouldy appearance and a strong smell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

= A division of cryptogamous plants, including mushrooms, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

The cryptogamous plants are here as common as in northern countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

The total number of these gigantic cryptogamous plants amounts at present to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

But all the islands are rich in cryptogamous plants, of which there is an almost infinite variety.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

The total number of these gigantic cryptogamous plants amounts at present to 25 species, that of the palm-trees to 80.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

We saw on the summit of the Peak no trace of psora, lecidea, or other cryptogamous plants; no insect fluttered in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

In the northern part of the temperate zone, the cryptogamous plants are the first that cover the stony crust of the globe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

A flora includes flowering or phaenogamous plants as well as flowerless or cryptogamous plants, but only such as grow wild.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Carolina and its Resources.] Reference

Immediately above this bed are found what seem to be traces of land-plants, in the shape of the spores of a cryptogamous plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science] Reference

The total number of fossil plants catalogued from those beds, cryptogamous as well as phænogamous, is upward of three thousand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference

After this, he remarks, one need not be surprised at the diffusion of the far lighter and smaller sporules of cryptogamous plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Charles Darwin] Reference

It was the nardou, a cryptogamous plant of the family Marsilacea, and the same which kept Burke and King alive in the deserts of the interior.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

Crime is cryptogamous and flourishes in concealment, so that not only does falsehood facilitate it, but certain types of lies often cause and are caused by it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference

An innumerable quantity of cryptogamous plants, among which ferns are the most predominant, cover the walls, and are moistened by small springs of limpid water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

( "Flora Subterranea Fribergensis"), in which he described especially those cryptogamous plants, or singular low and imperfect formations which occur in the deep mines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference

Passing by the simpler facts displayed by the cryptogamous vegetation, we have in the reproductive organs of the higher classes of plants some very curious and complicated adaptations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.] Reference

Azote and phosphorus having been abundantly found in several cryptogamous plants, an appeal to chemistry would be useless to determine whether this organized substance belonged to the animal or vegetable kingdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

Little euphorbias, peperomias, and other succulent plants, have taken the place of the cryptogamous tribes; and evergreen shrubs, rhexias, and purple-flowered melastomas, form verdant isles amid desert and rocky plains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

And cryptogamous plants fulfil the elk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference

"It's cryptogamous!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Survivors]