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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1841.07. I see from considering Smiths 1st Edit. CUL-DAR207.6. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

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I see from considering Smiths 1st Edit & Sowerby's Eng. Bot – that the Zostera Marina evidently flower in a sheath like Arum beneath level of water & sheath considerably closed, but evidently not really shut.

July / 41/

The ornithogalum canadense of Linn. is same as Albuca major – The flower largish in Curtis Bot. Mag – but not apparently, shut up than large foreign Heaths.

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Babington Manual p 31. "often perfected under water"

[Babington, Manual of British botany containing the flowering plants and ferns arranged according to the natural order.]

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