"Coelogyne" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... belief that fertilisation takes place outside the indusium. This statement, which we imagine Mr. Bentham must have had from an unpublished source, was incomprehensible to him as long as he confined his work to such genera as Goodenia, Scaevola, Velleia, Coelogyne, in which the mechanism is much as above described; but on examining Leschenaultia the meaning became clear. Bentham writes of this genus:—"The indusium is usually described as broadly two-lipped, without ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin |
