"Malva" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hardly so in reality, for apparently it plays the same part in the ordinary fertilisation of many flowers. Gaertner has shown,[947] by gradually increasing the number of pollen-grains until he succeeded in fertilising a Malva, that many grains are expended in the development, or, as he expresses it, in the satiation, of the pistil and ovarium. Again, when one plant is fertilised by a widely distinct species, it often happens ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. • Charles Darwin |
