= _ there are in many of the higher orders of 
sexual apparatus, capable of reproducing 
219 CRYPTOGAMIA. 
called sporules, mostly inclosed in cases called thece, and fre. 
quently irregularly dispersed about the plant. Seeds or spo- 
rules (spore, gongyle) simple bodies, without radicle, gem- 
mule, or cotyledon; germinating indifferently in any direc- 
tion, and striking root from any part oftheir surface. Des- 
titute of spiral vessels, consisting chiefly of cellular tissue, 
except the higher orders. : 
Exampies.—Sea-weeds,— Mosses,_Mushrooms,—Ferns. 
The Orders in this Division are te 
n, and may be arranged 
in the following manner :*_ 
I. APHYLLA4, or leafless; consisting of cel- {Liste 
lular tissue alone, and having naked spo- ~ Lichenes. 
HUGS hanes cesses cos. Sy Se en eae Alge. 
1, MuscorE», or 
_Moss-tribe, con- ioe e 
IL PHYLLOIDE®,— | sisting of-cellu- agg 
having leafy expan- lar tissue alone. ease 
sions, and sporules : 
enclosed in a proper | 2, Fintcomer.s, or { Marsileacex. 
integument or case. Fern-tribe, hav- ) Lycopodiacee. 
ing vascular tis-} Filices. 
sue, Equisetace2. 
oo 
Hooker have pointed out, that 
vegetables organs formed without 
the plant, as the bulbils of the 
‘ed, it may be observed, as M. Richard and Dr. 
_ Orange Lily, and Mountain Garlic, &e. 
