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Claim · model-written summary

The seed membrane opens when ripe and disperses seeds elastically.

Taxon
Oxyoidest0
Outcome
Membrane, like a Hood, which opens, when ripe; and by an elastic Motion, makes the Seed leap oute0

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Verbatim

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“The Oxyoides is a Family of Plants”

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“each of which is covered by a Membrane, like a Hood, which opens, when ripe; and by an elastic Motion, makes the Seed leap out”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 386–512

Title

II. Memoirs communicated by Mons. Garcin to Mons. St. Hyacinthe, F. R. S. containing a description of a new family of plants called oxyoïdes; some remarks on the family of plants called musa; and a description of the Hirudinella marina, or sea leach. Translated from the French, by Mr. John Martyn, F. R. S.

Laurent Garcin Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1730. doi:10.1098/rstl.1729.0053

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