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Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Young leaves are light green, mature leaves dark green, and leaves before drop rusty.

Taxon: cabbage-bark treet0
Organ / stage: leavese0
Outcome: light-green hue; when full-grown, of a dark-green colour; and before they drop, of a rusty appearancee0

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“The leaves are, when young, of a light-green hue; when full-grown, of a dark-green colour; and before they drop, of a rusty appearance.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 282–417

t0
“cabbage-bark tree”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 34–51

Title

XXVII. Description and use of the cabbage-bark tree of Jamaica.

William Wright Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1777. doi:10.1098/rstl.1777.0029

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Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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The flower spike is long and branched.

Taxon: cabbage-bark treet0
Outcome: flower-spike is long and beautifully branchede0

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“The flower-spike is long and beautifully branched.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 418–468

t0
“cabbage-bark tree”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 34–51

Title

XXVII. Description and use of the cabbage-bark tree of Jamaica.

William Wright Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1777. doi:10.1098/rstl.1777.0029

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Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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The flowers are numerous with dark purple calyces and pale rose petals.

Taxon: cabbage-bark treet0
Outcome: flowers are numerous; the calyces of a dark purple; their petals of the colour of the pale-rosee0

Verbatim

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“The flowers are numerous; the calyces of a dark purple; their petals of the colour of the pale-rose”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 469–602

t0
“cabbage-bark tree”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 34–51

Title

XXVII. Description and use of the cabbage-bark tree of Jamaica.

William Wright Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1777. doi:10.1098/rstl.1777.0029

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Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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Most of the plant was submerged except its head and upper stalk.

Taxon: rare plantt0
Organ / stage: head and top of the stalke0
Outcome: under the surface of the watere0

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“The whole of it, except the head and top of the stalk, was under the surface of the water”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 250–339

t0
“a rare plant”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 146–158

Title

XXXIII. A letter from John Hope, M.D. F. R. S. Professor of Physic and Botany in the University of Edinburgh, to William Watson, M.D. F. R. S. on a rare plant found in the Isle of Skye

John Hope Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1769. doi:10.1098/rstl.1769.0033

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Observation A rare plant was found in a small Skye lake in September 1768.
Observation The plant covered shallow lake bottoms and had tightly interwoven roots.
Observation Patches of the plant were torn up and floated at the surface.

Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

A plant raised from rheum palmatum seed produced a flowering stem at the beginning of May.

Taxon: rheum palmatumRheum palmatumt0
Organ / stage: flowering steme0
Outcome: pulled up a flowering steme0
Setting: botanic gardene1

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“In the beginning of May last, one of the plants from these seeds pulled up a flowering stem”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 212–303

t0
“rheum palmatum”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 73–87

e1
“botanic garden”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 196–210

Title

XXXII. Extract of a letter from Dr. John Hope, Professor of Medicine and Botany in the University of Edinburgh, to Dr. Pringle; dated Edinburgh, 24 September, 1765

John Hope Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1765. doi:10.1098/rstl.1765.0033

Other claims from this paper (1)

Observation The flowers opened about mid May and remained until 8 or 9 June.

Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

The flowers opened about mid May and remained until 8 or 9 June.

Taxon: rheum palmatumRheum palmatumt0
Organ / stage: flowerse0
Outcome: flowers began to opene0
Qualifier: till the 8th or 9th of Junee0

Verbatim

t0
“rheum palmatum”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 73–87

e0
“about the middle of the month, the flowers began to open, and continued in great beauty till the 8th or 9th of June”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 309–424

Title

XXXII. Extract of a letter from Dr. John Hope, Professor of Medicine and Botany in the University of Edinburgh, to Dr. Pringle; dated Edinburgh, 24 September, 1765

John Hope Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1765. doi:10.1098/rstl.1765.0033

Other claims from this paper (1)

Observation A plant raised from rheum palmatum seed produced a flowering stem at the beginning of May.

Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

The plant flowered and flourished at the Chelsea garden in 1761.

Taxon: Peruvian plantt0
Outcome: blowede0
Value: 1761e0
Setting: Physick garden at Chelseae0

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“This plant blowed in the Physick garden at Chelsea, and flourished there in great perfection in the year 1761”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 9–118

t0
“Peruvian plant”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 27–41

Title

XXVII. An account of a new Peruvian plant, lately introduced into the English gardens; the several characters of which differ from all the genera hitherto described; Presented to the Royal Society by George Dionysius Ehret, F. R. S

Georg Dionysius Ehret Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1763. doi:10.1098/rstl.1763.0027

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Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Its branches spread across the ground surface and multiplied through alternate side branches.

Taxon: Peruvian plantt0
Organ / stage: branchese0
Outcome: spread themselves on the surface of the grounde0

Verbatim

e0
“It produced abundance of branches, which spread themselves on the surface of the ground: these branches were greatly multiplied by side ones, which grow alternately”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 120–284

t0
“Peruvian plant”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 27–41

Title

XXVII. An account of a new Peruvian plant, lately introduced into the English gardens; the several characters of which differ from all the genera hitherto described; Presented to the Royal Society by George Dionysius Ehret, F. R. S

Georg Dionysius Ehret Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1763. doi:10.1098/rstl.1763.0027

Other claims from this paper (4)

Observation The plant flowered and flourished at the Chelsea garden in 1761.
Observation Branches were smooth near the ground and streaked toward the top.
Observation Each joint bore many ovate leaves with membranous ciliated footstalks.
Observation The plant produced abundant buds and sky-blue flowers with dark purple bases.

Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Branches were smooth near the ground and streaked toward the top.

Taxon: Peruvian plantt0
Outcome: smooth towards the ground, and streaked towards the tope0

Verbatim

e0
“are smooth towards the ground, and streaked towards the top”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 290–349

t0
“Peruvian plant”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 27–41

Title

XXVII. An account of a new Peruvian plant, lately introduced into the English gardens; the several characters of which differ from all the genera hitherto described; Presented to the Royal Society by George Dionysius Ehret, F. R. S

Georg Dionysius Ehret Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1763. doi:10.1098/rstl.1763.0027

Other claims from this paper (4)

Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Each joint bore many ovate leaves with membranous ciliated footstalks.

Taxon: Peruvian plantt0
Organ / stage: jointe0
Outcome: many ovate-shaped leaved, having membraneous ciliated footstalkse0

Verbatim

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“Each joint is furnished with many ovate-shaped leaved, having membraneous ciliated footstalks”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 386–479

t0
“Peruvian plant”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 27–41

Title

XXVII. An account of a new Peruvian plant, lately introduced into the English gardens; the several characters of which differ from all the genera hitherto described; Presented to the Royal Society by George Dionysius Ehret, F. R. S

Georg Dionysius Ehret Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1763. doi:10.1098/rstl.1763.0027

Other claims from this paper (4)

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