Paper · 1765 · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

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

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Abstract

Abstract In autumn 1763, I received from Doctor Mounsey the seeds of the rheum palmatum, which he assured me were the seeds of the true rhubarb. I sowed them immediately in the open ground in the botanic garden. In the beginning of May last, one of the plants from these seeds pulled up a flowering stem, and about the middle of the month, the flowers began to open, and continued in great beauty till the 8th or 9th of June

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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

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Rheum palmatum
Rheum palmatum · TaxonAlexander Klink · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

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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 · show in text ↑
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“rheum palmatum”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 73–87 · show in text ↑
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“botanic garden”

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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

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Rheum palmatum
Rheum palmatum · TaxonAlexander Klink · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

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“rheum palmatum”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 73–87 · show in text ↑
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“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 · show in text ↑