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Manual of the New Zealand Flora.
Subkingdom II. Cryptogamia
Subkingdom II. Cryptogamia.
Plants not bearing true flowers—that is, having no stamens nor ovules, and never producing seeds containing an embryo.
Class I. Pteridophyta.
Plants usually furnished with roots, leaves, and stems; in all cases containing well - developed vascular tissue. Reproductive organs composed of sporangia or spore - cases, containing microscopic spores, which on germination develop a prothallium.
| XCIII. | Filices. Sporangia minute, placed on the margin or under-surface of the leaf or frond, rarely somewhat larger and arranged in spikes or panicles. Spores all of one kind.—Fronds circinate in vernation (except in the suborder Ophioglossaceæ). (p. 925.) |
| XCIV. | Marsileaceæ. Sporangia of 2 kinds, macrosporangia and microsporangia, enclosed together in the cavities or cells of globose sporocarps near the base of the fronds. Macrosporangia containing a single macrospore; microsporangia with numerous rnicrospores.—Marsh plants, usually of small size; fronds circinate in vernation. (p. 1030.)page 1058 |
| XCV. | Salviniaceæ. Sporangia of 2 kinds, macrosporangia and microsporangia, enclosed in distinct sporocarps on the under-surface of the frond. Macrosporangia containing a single macro-spore; microsporangia with numerous microspores.—Free-floating fugacious annual water-plants, of small size. (p. 1030.) |
| XCVI. | Lycopodiaceæ. Sporangia all of one kind, placed singly at the upper base of the leaves or of the bracts of a spike or cone.—Stems simple or branched, erect or pendulous, or prostrate and creeping, usually leafy throughout; leaves small. (p. 1032.) |
| XCVII. | Isoetaceæ. Sporangia large, placed in a hollow of the dilated base of the leaf, those of the outer leaves containing macrospores, those of the inner leaves microspores.—Aquatic or amphibious stemless plants, often entirely submerged; leaves densely tufted, linear or filiform. (p. 1042.) |
The remaining classes and orders of Cryptogamia are not included in the present work.
Arrangement of the New Zealand Orders According to the Classification Adopted in Engler and Prantl's "Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien."