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  • Flora Londinensis. Or Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London: with their places of growth, and times of flowering; their several names according to Linnæus and other authors: with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English. To which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural œconomy and other arts / By William Curtis.
  • Fumitory (Fumaria glauca): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving, c. 1792.
  • Two examples of different root systems: a denticulate primrose rootstock and a creeping couch grass root. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
  • An orchid (Brassia maculata): flowering stem and leaf. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1814, after S. Edwards.
  • Christ's thorn plant (Ziziphus spina-christi): flowering stem. Coloured engraving, c. 1817.
  • Wild spikenard (Smilacina racemosa): flowering stem. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1806, after S. Edwards.
  • A plant (Polygonum orientale): flowering stem. Coloured engraving, c. 1792.
  • An aloe plant (Aloe carinata): flower and leaves. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1810, after S. Edwards.
  • A leguminous plant (Sphaerolobium vimineum): flowering stem. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1806, after S. Edwards.
  • Seven British garden plants, including a slipper flower: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • Four figures showing pericarp and seeds in fruits of an apple and a milkweed plant (Asclepias syriaca). Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
  • Various stages in the formation of the fruit of different flowers. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
  • Seven garden plants, including an orchid and a rhododendron: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1835.
  • Camphor plant (Cinnamomum camphora): flowering stem. Coloured engraving by Weddell, c. 1826, after R. Greville.
  • Seven British garden plants, including stinking Benjamin: flowering stems and some floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • Seven garden plants, including a lupin and buffalo clover: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Seven garden plants, including two orchids: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • A plant (Leucadendron fusciflorum): flowering stem. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1805, after S. Edwards.
  • Seven garden plants, including an orchid (Peristeria pendula): flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Five figures showing fruit, pericarps and seeds of a gooseberry, fir cone and wallflower. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
  • Seven garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Seven British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • The botanical magazine, or, Flower-garden displayed ... / by William Curtis.
  • A plant (Ornithoglossum glaucum): flowering plant. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1807, after S. Edwards.
  • Seven garden plants, including an orchid and a sunflower: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Seven garden plants, including an orchid: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • A houseleek (Sempervivum arachnoideum): flowering plant. Coloured engraving, c. 1788.
  • An orchid (Otochilus fusca): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured engraving by J. Swan, c. 1842, after W. Fitch.
  • Seven garden plants, including an orchid and an Australian honeysuckle: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Seven plants, including two orchids and a cactus: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.