48 VEGETABLE ORGANS. 



simple or parenehymatous cells, and in which the 

 representatives of the flower are so inconspicuous, Gl- 

 are reduced to so elementary a condition, that tho 

 plants included in the Division have been termed 

 Cryptogamic (tcpvTrros, concealed, 7^09, union 

 figuratively for reproductive organs) or Flowerless 

 Plants. The reproductive organs of the Cryptogamia 

 are usually termed the fructification, implying that 

 they produce fruit, but not flowers. 



