"Malva" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the segmentation is likewise determined by the number of the spermatozoa. With respect to plants, nearly the same results were obtained by Koelreuter and Gaertner. This last careful observer found,[883] after making successive trials on a Malva with more and more pollen-grains, that even thirty grains did not fertilise a single seed; but when forty grains were applied to the {364} stigma, a few seeds of small size were formed. The pollen-grains of Mirabilis are extraordinarily ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin |
