"Petunia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... formerly. (In the case of garden plants, as Darwin to a large extent claimed, it is not easy to say whether two individuals really belong to the same variety, as they are usually of hybrid origin. In some instances (Petunia, Iberis) the fresh stock employed by Darwin possessed flowers differing in colour from those of the plant crossed with it.) We know that most of Linneaus's species are compound species, frequently consisting of a very large number of smaller or elementary species formerly included ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others
... than his own, is quite willing to abandon his favourite yellow marigold and luscious jasmine for the pooteena and the beebeena and the fullax. But perhaps you do not know these flowers by their Indian names. We call them petunia, verbena, and phlox. This is, doubtless, another indication of ...
— Behind the Bungalow • EHA
... summa pietas creditur Nudare dulces liberos. Deprome thesauros, malis Suadendo quos praestigiis Exaggeratos obtines, Nigrantes quos claudis specu. Hoc poscit usus publicus; Hoc fiscus, hoc aerarium, Vt dedita stipendiis Ducem iuvet petunia. Sic dogma vestrum est, audio; "Suum quibusque reddito." En Caesar agnoscit suum Numisma, nummis inditum. Quod Caesaris scis, Caesari Da: nempe iustum postulo, Ni fallor; haud ullam tuus Signat Deus pecuniam. Nec quum ...
— Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name • Edmund Campion |
