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Claim · model-written summary

Cereus Peruvianus flowered at Norimberg in the garden of Mr. John Magnus Volkammer.

Taxon
Cereus PeruvianusCereus peruvianuse0
Outcome
flowere0
Setting
Norimberge0

Not reportedDirection

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“The Cereus Peruvianus happened lately to flower at Norimberg, in the Garden of Mr. John Magnus Volkammer”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 9–113

Title

VII. Nova literaria physico-medica curiosa; containing a description of the cereus which flowered at Norimberg in the year 1730. Communicated by Jo. Georg. Steigertahl Arch. Reg. Hanor. Prof. Helm. Soc. Honorar. Coll. Med. Lond. & R. S. S. to Sir Hans Sloane Bart. Pr. R. S. & Coll. Med. Lond. Translated from the Latin by T. Stack, M. D

Johann Georg Steigertahl Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1730. doi:10.1098/rstl.1729.0065

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Claim · model-written summary

The poyson wood tree has twigs, leaves and shape exactly like the sumac.

Taxon
poyson wood treet0
Outcome
Twiggs, Leaves, and Shapee2
Comparator
Sumacbe2

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e2

“Twiggs, Leaves, and Shape are exactly like the Sumacb”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 190–243
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“V. An account of the poyson wood tree in New-England”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 0–52

Title

V. An account of the poyson wood tree in New-England

Paul Dudley Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1721. doi:10.1098/rstl.1720.0036

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The poyson wood tree bears a dry berry.

Taxon
poyson wood treet0
Outcome
dry Berrye3

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e3

“it likewife bears a dry Berry”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 249–278
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“V. An account of the poyson wood tree in New-England”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 0–52

Title

V. An account of the poyson wood tree in New-England

Paul Dudley Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1721. doi:10.1098/rstl.1720.0036

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Its flower is complete, regular, polypetalous and hermaphrodite, standing on the ovary.

Taxon
araliastrumt0
Organ / stage
Flower Ae0
Outcome
complete, regular, polypetalous, and hermaphroditee0

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“whose Flower A is complete, regular, polypetalous, and hermaphrodite, standing on the Ovary B.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 44–138
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“araliastrum”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 34–45

Title

IV. A new genus of plants, call'd araliastrum, of which the famous nin-zin or ginseng of the Chineses, is a species. Communicated by Mr. Vaillant prædemonstrator at the Royal Garden at Paris, to the learned Dr. Will. Sherrard, LL. D. late consul at Smyrna, and by him to the Royal Society

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1717. doi:10.1098/rstl.1717.0019

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Apocynum Luzonis bore green, milky fruit described as mango-sized.

Taxon
Apocynum Luzonise0
Outcome
Fructum fert formæ & magnitudinis habitioris Mangœ spithameum, viridem, copiosissimé lacrescenteme0

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“Apocynum Luzonis 1, Seu Antipolanum. Indis Balana. Fructum fert formæ & magnitudinis habitioris Mangœ spithameum, viridem, copiosissimé lacrescentem, lactescentem, lacte candidissimo, spisso, nec viscoso.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 13–217

Title

II. Georg. Joseph. camel. de plantis philippensibus scandentibus; pars 2da. ad Jacobum Petiver, S. R. S. nuper transmissa

George Joseph Kamel Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1704. doi:10.1098/rstl.1704.0042

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Claim · model-written summary

The grafted tree bore three-formed fruit, some like orange, some like lemon or citron, and some with both forms.

Taxon
Orengee3
Organ / stage
fruite3
Outcome
three-formede3
Qualifier
some emulating Orenge, some Limons or Citrons, some partaking of both forms in onee3
Setting
Grove near Florencee0

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“This Tree was, about 30 years since, first met with in a Grove near Florence”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 9–85
e3

“fruit, three-formed, some emulating Orenge, some Limons or Citrons, some partaking of both forms in one”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 209–312

Title

A phytological observation concerning orenges and limons, both separately and in one piece produced on one and the same tree at Florence: Described by the Florentin Physitian Petrus Natus, and the description lately communicated to the publisher

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1675. doi:10.1098/rstl.1675.0018

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Cutting off skin and spongy parenchyma showed no sign of milky juice or breached vein.

Taxon
plante0
Organ / stage
skine0
Outcome
no signs of Milky juice follow, that is, no breach of a veine0

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“the skin of a plant may be cut sheer off with part of the spongy parenchyma, and no signs of Milky juice follow, that is, no breach of a vein”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 219–360

Title

A further account concerning the existence Veins in all kind of plants; together with a discovery of the membranous substance of those Veins, and of some acts in plants resembling those of sense ; as also of the agreement of the venal juice in vegetables with the blood of animals, &c. Communicated by Mr. Lister in a letter of January 8. 1672/73. and exhibited to the R.Society

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1673. doi:10.1098/rstl.1672.0059

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Claim · model-written summary

Plant veins were described as diverging bundles rather than branching.

Taxon
PlantsViridiplantaee0
Outcome
not to be ramified, but rather bundles of them di­varicatede0

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“Veins of Plants, which Mr. Lister observes not to be ramified, but rather bundles of them di­varicated”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 19–121

Title

A note of Dr. Wallis sent in a letter of Febr.'17. 1672/3, upon Mr. Lister’s observation concerning the Veins in Plants, pubish't in Numb. 90. of these tracts

Wallis Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1673. doi:10.1098/rstl.1673.0025

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Claim · model-written summary

The seeds produced melons with thin, embroidered skin without ribs.

Taxon
melonsCucumis meloe0
Organ / stage
skine0
Outcome
thin and somewhat embroider’d skin, not divided by ribbse0

Verbatim

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“All the seeds, I sent you, produce melons with a thin and somewhat embroider’d skin, not divided by ribbs”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 107–212

Title

An extract of M. Dela Quintiny's Letter, written to the publisher in French sometime agoe, concerning his way of ordering melons; now communicated in English for the satisfaction of several curious melonists in England

Dela Quintiny Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1669. doi:10.1098/rstl.1669.0005

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Claim · model-written summary

Some melons had whitish skin and others slate-colored skin.

Taxon
melonsCucumis meloe1
Organ / stage
skine0
Outcome
skin whitish, others of the colour of slatee0

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e0

“Some of them have their skin whitish, others of the colour of slate”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 214–281
e1

“produce melons with a thin”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 134–160

Title

An extract of M. Dela Quintiny's Letter, written to the publisher in French sometime agoe, concerning his way of ordering melons; now communicated in English for the satisfaction of several curious melonists in England

Dela Quintiny Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1669. doi:10.1098/rstl.1669.0005

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