"Fluctuability" Quotes from Famous Books
... or two or more nodes with their buds. An entire variety, though it may be cultivated in large districts and even in various countries, behaves with respect to variability as a single individual. Its individual fluctuability has been limited to the earliest period of its life, when it arose from an unknown seed. The personal characters that have been stamped on this one seed, partly by its descent, and partly in the development of its germ ... — Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries |