Abstract
THE genus Lilæa was founded by Humboldt and Bompland for a very curious plant closely allied to our native Triglochin, which was first found by them in New Grenada. The present memoir, which has apparently only recently reached Europe, is one of the most elaborate studies probably ever made of the entire morphology, histology, and development of a single flowering plant, and is due to the unexpected discovery of the plant in 1875 in the Argentine Republic. The curious reductions of structure which are the result of a more or less aquatic mode of life have always made plants of this kind attractive to investigators.
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"Monografia de Lilæa subulata." Por J. Hieronymus . Actas de la Academia national de Ciencias en Córdoba. (Buenos Aires, 1882.)
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D., W. Lilæa 1 . Nature 29, 530–531 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029530a0
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