"Primula sinensis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... described; but between 4 p.m. and 5.38 p.m. the cotyledon moved so that the prolonged line was beyond the limits of the glass, and the course is here shown by an imaginary dotted line. The cotyledon of Primula sinensis moved in closely analogous manner, as do those of a Cassia. Hence I expect to find such movements very general with cotyledons, and I am inclined to look at them as the foundation for all the other adaptive movements ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin |
