Paper, regarding 'Hirudinella marina' or sea leach by Laurent Garcin Garcin writes: 'The Oxyoides is a family of plants, whose flower and fruit are altogether like those of the Oxys; that is, the flower is compleat, regular, polypetalous and hermaphrodite; containing the ovary, which afterwards becomes, as in the Oxys, a five-cornered fruit, divided into five cells, filled with small seeds; each of which is covered by a membrane, like a hood, which opens, when ripe; and by an elastic motion, makes the seed leap out.' Subject: Botany / Zoology Read to the Royal Society on 14 May 1730 Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Memoirs communicated by Mons. Garcin to Mons. St. Hyacinthe, F. R. S. containing a description of a new family of plants called oxyoïdes; some remarks on the family of plants called musa; and a description of the Hirudinella marina, or sea leach. Translated from the French, by Mr. John Martyn, F. R. S.' 5 January 1729