"Palaeobotany" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... classes are studied, points to a community of origin of all plants in some few or one primeval ancestor. And to this inference the study of plant structure and morphology, together with the evidence of palaeobotany among other circumstances, lends confirmatory evidence, and all modern discoveries, as for instance that of the rudimentary prothallium formed by the pollen of angiosperms, tend to the smoothing of the path by which the descent ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXI., No. 531, March 6, 1886 • Various |
