"Germen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... regular series, and in the case of plants from monstrous changes, that certain organs in an individual are other organs metamorphosed. Thus every botanist considers petals, nectaries, stamens, pistils, germen as metamorphosed leaf. They thus explain, in the most lucid manner, the position and number of all parts of the flower, and the curious conversion under cultivation of one part into another. The complicated double set of jaws ...
— The Foundations of the Origin of Species - Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 • Charles Darwin |
