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Definition of Cryptogams
1. cryptogam [n] - See also: cryptogam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cryptogams
Literary usage of Cryptogams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Francis Wall Oliver, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"... FRUIT-FORMATION IN cryptogams. continue to use them with advantage. Thus,
under the name of Cryptogam we shall include all plants destitute of flowers ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1888)
"On the Occurrence of Aluminium in Certain Vascular cryptogams." By AH CHURCH,
MA, FCS Communicated by Dr. JH GILBERT, FRS .Received March 2V, 1888. ..."
3. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"VASCULAR cryptogams. UNDER this term are included in one group the Ferns, Equisetaceae
... in Vascular cryptogams, the form of a thallus ; it never attains, ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1880)
"On the Classification of cryptogams.1 By ALFRED W. BENNETT, MA, B.Sc., FLS, ...
In the most recent classification of cryptogams, that by Sachs, ..."
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