Romance of Low Life amongst Plants: Facts and Phenomena of Cryptogamic Vegetation
Journal: Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution)
Year: 2011

HE entire vegetable world of great and small, from the Australian gum tree to the smallest microbe, is divisible, for scientific purposes, into two primary sections, which are termed respectively the Phanerogamia, or flowering plants, and the Cryptogamia, or flowerless plants ; but it is only with the latter that we are called upon to deal.It may be premised that they are designated as floiverless plants, because the organs of fructification are not developed into conspicuous flowers, as in the