"Amidin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... been described above as consisting of a multitude of little cells or vesicles, having an envelope, insoluble in water, formed of a kind of organized membrane, and containing within it a substance which is soluble in water, termed amidin. This soluble material is the nutritive element on which the young shoot, proceeding from every eye or bud of the potatoes, is to subsist, till it has developed roots, and unfolded its leaves to prepare additional alimentary substance. But if this soluble material be enclosed in ...
— The Church of England Magazine - Volume 10, No. 263, January 9, 1841 • Various |
