Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Cryptogamia

Cryptogamia (kr?p`t?-g?"m?-?) , noun

[New Latin, from Greek krypto`s hidden, secret + ga`mos marriage.]

(Botany) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.