"Genus Rubus" Quotes from Famous Books
... common dog-rose—no less than twenty-eight named varieties distinguished by more or less constant characters and often confined to special localities, and to these are referred about seventy of the species of British and continental botanists. Of the genus Rubus or bramble, five British species are given in Bentham's Handbook of the British Flora, while in the fifth edition of Babington's Manual of British Botany, published about the same time, no less than ...![](http://www.freetranslator.org/rquot.gif) — Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace |