Cryptogams

Plant Characteristics
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Scientific Names

Read about Cryptogams in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Cryptogams are flowerless plants, producing not seeds but spores. The whole vegetable kingdom was formerly thrown into two classes, the flowering plants or phanerogams and the flowerless or cryptogams. Cryptogam means "concealed nuptials, and phanerogam "visible nuptials." These names were given when it was thought that the sexual parts of the flowerless plants were very obscure or even wanting. The word is now falling into disfavor with botanists. Cryptogams are of less horticultural interest than the flowering plants, although they include the ferns, and some interesting smaller groups, as selaginellas, lycopods or club mosses. The word cryptogam is now mostly given up by botanists as representing a taxonomic group, as the name is founded on imperfect or false analogies. The plants covered by this name are now distributed in the great divisions of thallophytes, bryophytes and pteridophytes; and the phenogams or phanerogams are spoken of as spermatophytes (see the categories on p. 2, Vol. I.). ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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