Candolle
Americannoun
noun
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To the celebrated French botanist Alphonse de Candolle he wrote:
From Time ● Nov. 24, 2014
De Candolle, P., non-variability of monotypic genera, ii.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
It was at one of these evening assemblies that Miss Edgeworth, while talking to De Candolle in her most brilliant strain, attracted a crowd five deep.
From Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern
If anyone doubts that hardy varieties have been gradually bred by selection, I refer him to the evidence collected by De Candolle, Darwin, Wallace, Bailey and others.
From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward
C. histrix was described by De Candolle, flowers and fruits excepted, from a plant growing in Montpellier, being recognized principally by its long broad-winged petioles and free stamens.
From The Philippine Agricultural Review Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 by Various
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