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The white-flowered blue flag iris, I. versicolor 'Murrayana' has an interesting history. Found in Newfoundland, lost, then rediscovered elsewhere and repatriated, this article may be of interest to plant history buffs! Certainly, beardless iris lovers will find this an interesting story.
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Today in history: November 21
1794: Captain William Brown of HMS Butterworth was the first European to sail into the natural bay now known as Honolulu, Hawaii.
1860: John Eatton Le Conte Jr., American naturalist, died in Philadelphia at age 76. He surveyed areas of Virginia and Georgia, and he produced a Latin text catalogue of plants found on Manhattan Island.
2002: Roy Orlo Woodbury, American botanist, died in Florida, at the age of 88. He worked in Puerto Rico with the Agricultural Experiment Station, and later as a taxonomist in the Botanical Garden of the University of Puerto Rico.
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