Cryptogamia

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Cryptogamia - in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi

division - (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum

kingdom Plantae, plant kingdom, Plantae - (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants

Phanerogamae - in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all seed-bearing plants; superseded by the division Spermatophyta

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On the germination, development, and fructification of the higher Cryptogamia, and on the fructification of the Coniferae.

Homologous versus antithetic alternation of generations and the origin of sporophytes

(2) The volumes included the five Narrative volumes (1844); Ethnography and Philology (1846); Zoophytes (1846; atlas, 1849); Mammalogy and Ornithology (1858); Races of Men (1848); Geology (1849); Meteorology (1851); Mollusca and Shells (1852; atlas, 1856); Crustacea (2 vols.) (1852-1853; atlas, 1855); Botany: Phanerogamia Part I (1854; atlas, 1856); Botany: Phanerogamia, part 2 (never printed); Botany: Cryptogamia. Filices (1854; atlas, 1855); Botany: Cryptogamia.