...as I read slowly through the Origin, steadily and surely my eyes began to open. "Plants and animate remote in the scale of nature are bound together by a web of complex relations." While the children took an unprecedented nap together, I copied this quote from Darwin onto a file...

...duration of the forms of life! I am tempted to give one more instance showing how plants and animals, most remote in the scale of nature, are bound together by a web of complex relations. I shall hereafter have occasion to show that the exotic Lobelia fulgens, in this part of England, is...

...author further adds : — " I am tempted to give one more instance showing how plants and animals, most remote in the scale of nature, are bound together by a web of complex relations. I shall hereafter have occasion to show that the exotic Lobelia fulgens, in this part of England, is...

...to the fertilisation of the heartsease ( Viola tricolor), for other bees do not visit this flower. I have also found that the visits of bees are necessary for the fertilisation of some kinds of clover: for instance, 20 heads of Dutch clover (Trifolium repens) yielded...