phanerogamic

• “Diversity and origins of the phanerogamic flora of Mexico.”

  Description of the Ecoregions of North America (CEC)

• “His activity was by no means confined to palaeobotany, but extended into all branches of botany, more particularly anatomy and phanerogamic taxonomy.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"

• “In the Miocene period especially, the similarity of the types of phanerogamic plants with their present offspring, becomes so striking that in a large number of cases specific distinctions rest in greater part on theoretical conceptions rather than on real facts.”

  Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation

• “Almost all the phanerogamic plants are dependent for their development upon the direct light and heat of the sun.”

  Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science

• “I suppose you would hardly have expected them to be more varying than a phanerogamic plant.”

  More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1

• “New Zealand , a linear island stretching over about 700 miles of latitude, with forests, marshes, plains and mountains reaching to the limits of eternal snow, has far more diversified habitats than an equal area at the Cape of Good Hope; and yet, I believe, at the Cape of Good Hope there are, of phanerogamic plants, from five to ten times the number of species as in all New”

  The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844

• “Umbilicariae cast their colored but scanty covering over the rocks, exposed by the melted snow, beautiful phanerogamic plants, as the Culcitium rufescens, Sida pinchinchensis, and Saxifraga Boussingaulti, are still found to flourish in the tropical region of the chain of the Andes, at an elevation of more than 15,000 feet.”

  COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1

• “The coal measures contain not only fern-like cryptogamic plants and phanerogamic monocotyledons (grasses, yucc-like Liliaceae and palms), but also gymnospermic dicotyledons (Coniferae and Cycadeae), amounting in all to nearly 400 species, as characteristic of the coal formations.”

  COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1

• “(Hydroporus thermalis), Gallionellae, Oscillatoria and Confervae, while their waters bathe the root-fibers of phanerogamic plants.”

  COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1

• “[Footnote] * The absence of palms and tree-ferns on the temperate slopes of the Himalaya is shown in Don's 'Flora Nepalensis', 1825, and in the remarkable series of lithographs of Wallich's 'Flora Indica', whose catalogue contains the enormous number of 7683 Himalaya species, almost all phanerogamic plants, which have as yet been but imperfectly classified.”

  COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1

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