phanerogamous

"phanerogamous," or "brigantine" -- and when you understand all the rest of the statement except that word, then as a general rule the dictionary will help to make the meaning clear.

The Making of Arguments J. H. Gardiner

Currently, we know that there are between 1,000 and 1,500 species belonging to 300 genera of phanerogamous plants alone; of these approximately 60% are endemic.

Cordillera Central páramo 2007

Thus in the phanerogamous plants there is assumed to exist, in all cases, an axis (stem, branches, roots, thalamus, &c.), bearing leaves and flowers.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

The mosses and lichens were but feebly developed, and the phanerogamous plants were in the same state of severe repression.

The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants 1871

They were covered with a great abundance of lichens, and the plains between them yielded to Dr. Kjellman the following phanerogamous plants:

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

The high banks especially were richly covered by phanerogamous plants and lichens, and would have deserved a closer examination.

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

English Bibles, seems to be limited to phanerogamous plants -- grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit.

Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science 1854

The lichens and mosses, that develop their foliage beneath the snows, are succeeded by grumina and other phanerogamous plants.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

* New Holland contains above forty European phanerogamous plants: and the greater number of those plants, which are found equally in the temperate zones of both hemispheres, are entirely wanting in the intermediary or equinoctial region, as well in the plains as on the mountains.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

A downy-leaved violet, which terminates in some sort the zone of the phanerogamous plants at Teneriffe, and which was long thought peculiar to that island, * is seen three hundred leagues farther north, near the snowy summit of the Pyrenees.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851