"Verbascum phoeniceum" Quotes from Famous Books
... fully on the present subject; and I will therefore here give only a brief abstract of the cases there described, but others must be added, as they have an important bearing on the present work. Kolreuter long ago described plants of Verbascum phoeniceum which during two years were sterile with their own pollen, but were easily fertilised by that of four other species; these plants however afterwards became more or less self-fertile in a strangely fluctuating manner. Mr. Scott also found that ... — The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom • Charles Darwin |