Paper, regarding 'Hirudinella marina' or sea leach by Laurent Garcin
Reference number: CLP/15ii/16
Date: 05 January 1729
Description
Garcin writes: 'The Oxyoides is a family of plants, whose flower and fruit are altogether like those of the Oxys; that is, the flower is compleat, regular, polypetalous and hermaphrodite; containing the ovary, which afterwards becomes, as in the Oxys, a five-cornered fruit, divided into five cells, filled with small seeds; 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.'
Subject: Botany / Zoology
Read to the Royal Society on 14 May 1730
Published in Philosophical Transactions as '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.'
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- CLP/15ii/16
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- 05 January 1729
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- Page extent
- 15 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Laurent Garcin, Paper, regarding 'Hirudinella marina' or sea leach by Laurent Garcin, 05 January 1729, CLP/15ii/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_15ii_16/paper-regarding-hirudinella-marina-or-sea-leach-by-laurent-garcin, accessed on 13 November 2024
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II. Memoirs communicated by Mons. Garcin to Mons. St. Hyacinthe, F. R. S. containing a description of a new family of plants called oxyoides; some remarks on the family of plants called musa; and a description of the <italic>Hirudinella marina</italic>, or sea leach. Translated from the French, by Mr. John Martyn, F. R. S. External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1730
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1729.0053
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