Quillwort - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: quillwortPteridophyta
A class of flowerless plants embracing ferns horsetails club mosses quillworts and other like plants See the Note under Cryptogamia...
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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