"Linne" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... only to allude to those instances in which the cleavage occurs in flowers whose sepals or petals are usually entire. Under this category Moquin mentions a petal of Brassica oleracea completely split into two. Linne in his 'Flora Lapponica' (pp. 145 and 164) mentions quadrifid petals of Lychnis dioica, and much divided petals of Rubus arcticus. Among other plants subject to this division of sepals or petals may be mentioned as having ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters |
