"Linum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... does not share in the blood of princes. Although favored by a strictly vegetable descent myself, the laws of nature have not permitted me to escape from the influence of this common rule. The earliest accounts I possess of my progenitors represent them as a goodly growth of the Linum Usitatissimum, divided into a thousand cotemporaneous plants, singularly well conditioned, and remarkable for an equality that renders the production valuable. In this particular, then, I may be said to enjoy a precedency over the ...
— Autobiography of a Pocket-Hankerchief • James Fenimore Cooper
... (3.) Linum usitatissimum (Lineae, Fam. 39).—The stems of this plant, shortly before the flowering period, are stated by Fritz Mller ('Jenaische Zeitschrift,' B. v. p. 137) to revolve, ...
— The Power of Movement in Plants • Charles Darwin |
