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IN Black's “Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry,” published in 1803, there occurs the footnote in reference to marsh gas (spoken of by Black as ‘inflammable air’): “The Dictamnus Fraxinella emits it from its flowers in such abundance in a calm evening, that it may be set on fire by a candle, nay, take fire of itself.”
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FINDLAY, A. Marsh Gas from Plants. Nature 121, 58 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121058e0
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