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SYSTEMATIC BOTANY. 



Pig. 532, c, A Fern ; Polypodium vulgare. a, Club-moss ; Lycopodium dendroideum. 6, Equisetum 

 (Scouring Rush or Horse Tail). d, a Liverwort Moss ; Marchantia. e, a Fungus or Mushroom ; 

 Agaricus, in three stages of growth. 



SUB-KINGDOM n. 



485. Cryptogamia. Plants that do not produce 

 proper flowers. From the Greek upv-rrros, hidden, and 

 ya>oc, marriage. 



486. CLASS I. Pt eridophy ta. Vascular cryptogams- 

 Perns and their allies. From Greek words Trrep^, a 

 fern, and 0vrov, a plant, signifying a fern-like plant. 



This class is divided into three cohorts. 



487. COHOKT 1, H. Lycopodinse (Club Mosses). 

 Stem herbaceous, rooting at the nodes and creeping, 

 simple or branched, sometimes tree-shaped ; foliage 

 small ; leaf one-nerved ; fructification at the base of 

 the leaf or in terminal catkins on the branches. Name 

 from Greek words MKO?, a wolf, and rrovg, a foot, due 

 to the fancied resemblance of the roots to the foot of 

 a wolf. 



