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ACROGENAE (" growing at the apex ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 155 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACROGENAE (" growing at the
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apex ")  , an obsolete botanical
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term, originally applied to the higher Cryptogams (mosses and ferns), which were erroneously distinguished from the
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lower (
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Algae and
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Fungi) by apical growth of the
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stem . The lower Cryptogams were contrasted as Amphigenae (" growing all over "), a misnomer, as apical growth is
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common 'among them .

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