"Ranunculaceae" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the plants. But the different species of a genus, or genera of a family, usually have in common only a limited number of characters. A Rose does not seem to differ from a Rubus, or the Umbelliferae from the Ranunculaceae, in much else than the characters botanically assigned to those genera or those families. Unenumerated differences certainly do exist in some cases; there are families of plants which have peculiarities of chemical composition, or yield products having peculiar effects on the animal ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill |
