"Circumscissile" Quotes from Famous Books
... authors diverse generic reference as one feature or another in the structure is emphasized in the different cases. It is granted that it is hard to draw the line sometimes between forms in which the dehiscence is irregularly circumscissile and those in which the wall breaks without any regularity whatever, since, in all, the breaking up of the peridium usually begins at the top. Species here included will, however, ... — The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride |