Candolle
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noun
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To the celebrated French botanist Alphonse de Candolle he wrote:
From Time ● Nov. 24, 2014
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
According to De Candolle, this may depend upon the greater or less amount of water they contain, upon the greater or less viscidity of their fluids, or the rapidity with which these fluids circulate.
From American Pomology Apples by J. A. Warder
The whole scheme of the biological system, as initiated by Linnæus and improved by Cuvier, Jussieu, De Candolle, and their successors, is essentially that of a genealogical tree.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
The work was continued after his death, by his son Alphonse de Candolle, with the aid of other eminent botanists, and embraces descriptions of the genera and species of the orders of Dicotyledonous plants.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
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