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16 manuscript pages and one plate showing various parts of the Listera ovata [eggleaf twayblade].

Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the functions and structure of the rostellum of listera ovata'.

Received and read by the Royal Society on 15 June 1854.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 7, 1856.

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PT/49/3i
Earliest possible date
1854
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
17 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Joseph Dalton Hooker

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Joseph Dalton Hooker, Paper, 'On the functions and structure of the rostellum of Listera ovata' by J D [Joseph Dalton] Hooker, 1854, PT/49/3i, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_49_3i/paper-on-the-functions-and-structure-of-the-rostellum-of-listera-ovata-by-j-d-joseph-dalton-hooker, accessed on 18 April 2025

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