Candolle
Americannoun
noun
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To the celebrated French botanist Alphonse de Candolle he wrote:
From Time • Nov. 24, 2014
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
We have introduced every where," observes De Candolle, "some weeds which grow among our various kinds of wheat, and which have been received, perhaps, originally from Asia along with them.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
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
De Candolle, P., non-variability of monotypic genera, ii.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
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