[Well, that IS the literal meaning of the Latin root-word, and considering Darwin was a good 500 years in the future, it's pretty likely he'd link it to the original and not the borrowed meaning. But he's willing to learn!]

Strange... it sounds almost exactly like what's done to a scroll. But they have an actual word for the flowering of a blossom?

[He's not really grasping the wider implications of the word just yet.]