68 SOUri-I AFRICAN FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Class II Monocotyledons 



Div'bdun I. ... Pdaloidcm 



„ 11. . . . Glumaccm 



Cryptogam.']*:, ou I'lowerless Plants. 



1 will now add a few particulars about these 

 classificatory terms, tliougli they will be better under- 

 stood after liowers 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 anthcridia, i.e. " anther-like," and 'instillidia, 

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

 anther and pollen-grains are called microsporangia ^ 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. 



2 I.e. large spore-vessels. * I.e. large spores. 



5 Such plants as ferns, mosses, licheus, seaweeds, and fungi are 

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



