Cryptogams are lower plants or plant-like organisms that reproduce by spores.
This includes mushrooms and other fungi, seaweeds, mosses, liverworts, lichens and slime molds. Among the cryptogams are many organisms that used to be the subjects of botanists, but are now usually studied by other biological specialists. Click on an thumbnail below to go to the group that interests you. Then click on the individual thumbnails to go to separate pages with explanatory text and the larger 3-D image. The final images are in JPS stereo format.