Candolle
Americannoun
noun
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To the celebrated French botanist Alphonse de Candolle he wrote:
From Time ● Nov. 24, 2014
Another striking exception, and one which would have puzzled De Candolle for its color classification, is the columbine.
From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson
In this place may also be mentioned the hypertrophied condition of the placenta observed by Alphonse de Candolle in a species of Solanum, and also in a species of Melastoma.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
De Candolle, Alph., number and origin of cultivated plants, i. 306-307, 371; regions which have furnished no useful plants, i.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
De Candolle gave his name to a genus of Brazilian trees—Huberia laurina.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
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