Cryptogam - Law Dictionary Search Results
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A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia...
Cryptogamist
One skilled in cryptogamic botany...
Equisetum
A genus of vascular cryptogamic herbaceous plants also called horsetails...
Lycopodiaceous
Belonging or relating to the Lycopodiaceaelig an order of cryptogamous plants called also club mosses with branching stems and small crowded one nerved and usually pointed leaves...
Moss
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...
VerbarMusci
An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants the mosses See Moss and Cryptogamia...
VerbarNardoo
An Australian name for Marsilea Drummondii a four leaved cryptogamous plant sometimes used for food...
VerbarOoumlgonium
A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing ooumlspheres as in the rockweeds Fucus and the orders Vaucherieaelig and Peronosporeaelig...
Ooumlphore
An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants as ferns mosses and the like which bears antheridia and archegonia and so has sexual fructification as contrasted with the sporophore which is nonsexual but produces spores in countless number In ferns the ooumlphore is a minute prothallus in mosses it is the leafy plant...
Quillwort
Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four tubed rushlike leaves rising from a corm and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases There are about seventeen American species usually growing in the mud under still shallow water So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves...
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