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Other endangered species include: Cypripedium macranthon, Calypso bulbosa, Epipogium phyllum, Orchis militaris, Trapa natans, Paeonia anomala, Nymphaea candida and other plants.
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Other rare plants include the sedge Machaerina rubiginosa, the aroid Cyrtosperma merkusii, and floating water plants such as Hydrocharis dubia and water chestnut (Trapa maximoviscii).
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Horned water chestnuts or caltrops are the seeds of species of Trapa, water plants native to Africa, central Europe, and Asia.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Horned water chestnuts or caltrops are the seeds of species of Trapa, water plants native to Africa, central Europe, and Asia.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Almost the only exception to the rule in accordance with which roots descend under natural circumstances, is that furnished by _Trapa natans_, the roots of which in germination are directed upwards towards the surface of the water.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Water plants of Chuch, Trapa, Valisneria verticillata, and Nymphaea.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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-- The large seeds of _Trapa bicornis_, a native of China, and of _T. bispinosa_ and _natans_, species indigenous to
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Singhara, Meaning "horned nut," the water chestnut _ (Trapa bispinosa_).
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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Trapa natans, {181a} and Lamarck's kindred passage on the descent of
Unconscious Memory Samuel Butler 1868
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Darwin's note on _Trapa natans_ {221} and Lamarck's kindred passage on the descent of _Ranunculus hederaceus_ from _Ranunculus aquatilis_ {222a} as fresh discoveries, and be told with much happy simplicity, that those animals and plants which have felt the need of such a structure have developed it, while those which have not wanted it have gone without it.
Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals Samuel Butler 1868
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