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- Cryptogamous - a. - Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series.
- Fern - n. - An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.
- Musci - n. pl. - An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants; the mosses. See Moss, and Cryptogamia.
- Female - a. - Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
- Oogonium - n. - A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing oospheres, as in the rockweeds (Fucus), and the orders Vaucherieae and Peronosporeae.
- Lycopodiaceous - a. - Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceae, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.
- Selaginella - n. - A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many species are cultivated in conservatories.
- Nardoo - n. - An Australian name for Marsilea Drummondii, a four-leaved cryptogamous plant, sometimes used for food.
- Receptacle - n. - A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.
- Moss - n. - A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.
- Proembryo - n. - The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.
- Sporangium - n. - A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.
- Hepatica - n. - Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement.