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cryptogam

Obsolete name applied to the lower plants. It included the algae, liverworts, mosses, and ferns (plus the fungi and bacteria in very early schemes of classification). In such classifications seed plants were known as phanerogams.



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Cryptogams, they have been called, because of their hidden sex lives.
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