"Mirabilis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bearing two kinds of flowers. Mirabilis jalapa is eminently sportive, sometimes bearing on the same root pure red, yellow, and white flowers, and others striped with various combinations of these three colours.[868] The plants of the Mirabilis which bear such extraordinarily variable flowers, in most, probably in all cases, owe their origin, as shown by Prof. Lecoq, to ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. • Charles Darwin |
