Cryptogam
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- cryptogam: a non-flowering plant; a member of a former taxonomic group of plants that reproduce using spores, such as ferns, mosses, algae, fungi, lichens or liverworts → name can be etymologized as hidden husband
- cryptogram: a type of word puzzle in which text encoded by a simple cipher is to be decoded → FW, though here HCE is being referred to