"Malvaceae" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fertilise themselves for perpetuity. This law was first plainly hinted at in 1799, with respect to plants, by Andrew Knight,[440] and, not long afterwards, that sagacious observer Koelreuter, after showing how well the Malvaceae are adapted for {176} crossing, asks, "an id aliquid in recessu habeat, quod hujuscemodi flores nunquam proprio suo pulvere, sed semper eo aliarum suae speciei impregnentur, merito quaeritur? Certe natura nil facit frustra." ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin |
