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  • I pushed forward the list of herbals linden blossom, wormwood, coltsfoot that a doctor in Milan had prescribed, the tea of aloe, gentian root and jalappa.

    Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000

  • I pushed forward the list of herbals linden blossom, wormwood, coltsfoot that a doctor in Milan had prescribed, the tea of aloe, gentian root and jalappa.

    Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000

  • To give an instance: Mirabilis jalappa can easily be fertilised by the pollen of M. longiflora, and the hybrids thus produced are sufficiently fertile; but Kölreuter tried more than two hundred times, during eight following years, to fertilise reciprocally M. longiflora with the pollen of M. jalappa, and utterly failed.

    On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1859

  • To give an instance: Mirabilis jalappa can easily be fertilised by the pollen of M. longiflora, and the hybrids thus produced are sufficiently fertile; but Kolreuter tried more than two hundred times, during eight following years, to fertilise reciprocally M. longiflora with the pollen of M. jalappa, and utterly failed.

    On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 08 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859

  • Mirabilis jalappa can easily be fertilised by the pollen of M. longiflora, and the hybrids thus produced are sufficiently fertile; but Kolreuter tried more than two hundred times, during eight following years, to fertilise reciprocally M. longiflora with the pollen of M. jalappa, and utterly failed.

    On the origin of species Charles Darwin 1845

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