68 SOUTH AFRICAN FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Class II Monocotyledons 



Division /. . . . Petaloidece 



,, II. . . . GUimacece 



Cryptogams, or Flowerless Plants. 



I will now add a few particulars about these 

 classificatory terms, though they will be better under- 

 stood after flowers have been examined belonging to 

 each group. 



First of all, the Vegetable kingdom can be sharply 

 divided into two " Sub-Kingdoms," as they are some- 

 times called, namely, plants which bear flowers having 

 stamens and pistils, and those which have none, but 

 are provided with corresponding organs, which take the 

 names of antheridia, i.e, " anther-like," and pistillidia, 

 i.e. "pistil-like." The bodies corresponding to the 

 anther and pollen-grains are called micivsporangia ^ and 

 microspores ; ^ while those corresponding to ovules are 

 called macrosporangia^ which produce macrosporesj' 



The macrospores escape from the macrosporangia 

 in Cryptogams ; ^ but they remain within them in 

 Phanerogams and form seeds. Hence one fundamental 

 difference between these two sub-kingdoms is, that 

 one produces " spores," the other bears " seeds." 



> I.e. little spore-vessels. * I.e. little spores. 



3 I.e. large spore- vessels. * I.e. large spores, 



s Such plants as ferns, mosses, lichens, seaweeds, and fungi are 

 " Cryptogams," with which I am not concerned in this book. 



