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  • Fig (Ficus carica L.): fruit and leaves. Colour and coloured aquatint by G. Pera, c. 1825, after P. Tofani.
  • A heliotrope (Heliotropium minus): entire flowering plant. Woodcut.
  • Branches of scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). Pen drawing.
  • Common meadow grass (Poa pratensis): seedhead and leafy stems. Coloured etching, c. 1805.
  • Cinchona plant (Cinchona officinalis): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.
  • Tree-ferns in an Australian forest with two hunters in the distance. Engraving by E. Brandard, c. 1873, after N. Chevalier.
  • Buck's horn plantain (Plantago coronopus L.): entire flowering plant with separate flower. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • A plant (Coutarea pubescens): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.
  • Bullock's Museum, (Egyptian Hall or London Museum), Piccadilly: the interior. Coloured aquatint, 1810.
  • Common beech (Fagus sylvatica): stem with flowers and nut and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1843.
  • Autumn leaves of hawthorn (Crataegus). Watercolour drawing.
  • 'Aunt Lucy' (Ellisia nyctelea (L.) L.): flowering stem with separate flower and fruit segments and a detailed description. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • Queens flower: flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • Branches of scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). Pen drawing.
  • Rose hips and leaves. Watercolour and pen drawings.
  • Ox-eye or marguerite daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare): flowers and leaves. Watercolour.
  • Nine flowering plants, one possibly a phlox and one a green brier. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • A plant (a species of Primulaceae): entire flowering plant with separate flower sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Two Bulgarian women wearing national dress.
  • Nine species of native Australian flowers. Coloured lithograph by G. F. Angas, c. 1846, after himself.
  • Possibly a type of mullein (Verbascum sp.): flowering stem with separate leaf. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Large Christmas bell (Blandifordia grandiflora)... : Christmas bush (Ceratopetalum gummiferum)... : mistletoe (muellerina eucalyptifolia)... : Christmas beetle / designed by Strom Gould.
  • Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium: in qua, praeter vermes et erucas Surinamenses, earumque ... metamorphosin, plantae, flores et fructus, quibus vescuntur, et in quibus fuerunt inventae, exhibentur. His adjunguntur bufones, lacerti, serpentes, araneae, aliaque ... istius regionis animalcula ... Accedit appendix transformationum piscium in ranas, et ranarum in pisces. Dissertation sur la génération et les transformations des insectes de Surinam. Dans laquelle on traite des vers et des chenilles de Surinam, des plantes, fleurs, & fruits dont ils vivent & dans lesquels on les a trouvez. On y parle aussi des crapaux, lezards, serpens, aragnées & autres petits animaux du même païs, peints sur les lieux d'après nature, & depuis gravez avec beaucoup de soin.On y a joint un traité des changemens des poissons en grenouilles & des grenouilles en poissons / [Maria Sibylla Merian].
  • Quillwort (Isoetes echinospora): entire plant with spores and floral segments. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1863, after himself.
  • The herball or, generall historie of plantes / Gathered by John Gerarde.
  • Cluster of fruit of a date palm (Phoenix dactylifera). Colour aquatint by G. Carocci, 1838, after I. Palmerini, 1837.
  • White hellebore (Veratrum album): flowering stem, bulb and leaf. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.
  • Two different mosses in five clumps, of which three have slender stalked sporophytes. Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.
  • Tea plant (Camellia sinensis): flowering stem with sectioned leaf and many floral segments. Coloured engraving by J. Miller, c. 1771.
  • Four fruiting plants, a rose, a strawberry, a fig and a lemon, all with different types of pericarp. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.