"Pericarp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in a state of repose in vegetables as in grain, have special properties; thus the berry possesses a pericarp whose tissues should remain foreign to the phenomena of germination, and these tissues show no particularity worthy of remark, but the coating of the embryo, which should play an active part, possesses, on the contrary, properties that ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various |
