Asa Gray Vegetable Quotations

Upon no one of these particular points has there been a completer change of view than upon the distinctness of the animal and vegetable kingdoms.

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.

Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.