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East Indian Screw Tree (Helictores isora L.): branch with flowers and fruit, separate dehisced fruit and sectioned fruit with seeds. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16202i
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A Chinese plant known as "Ju": stem with leaves. Watercolour.
Reference: 22597i
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Horsemint (Mentha longifolia (L.) Huds.): entire flowering plant with separate flower. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 18142i
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Barbados aloe plant (Aloe vera): flowering plant and floral segments. Colour halftone after J. Lambert, c. 1842, after P. Turpin.
Turpin, P. J. F. (Pierre Jean François), 1775-1840.Date: 1842Reference: 26127i
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Butterbur (Petasites hybridus): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1903.
Date: 1904Reference: 21100i
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Camphor tree (Cinnamomum camphora): flowering branch and floral segments. Chromolithograph, c. 1887, after W. Müller.
Müller, Walther.Date: 1887Reference: 24531i
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East Indian or Malabar Kino (Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb.): branch with flowers, separate shoot bearing flowers and fruit and sections of flowers. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16187i
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Saffron crocus (Crocus sativus L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments and bulb and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H.Hemerich, c.1759, after T.Sheldrake.
Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1740-1770.Date: [1759]Reference: 18234i
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A grape vine, cedar of lebanon and two palm trees by a lake with eleven other plants from the bible forming a border. Lithograph, c. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 27985i
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A coffee plant (Coffea arabica), its flower and fruit segments bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
Date: [c. 1840]Reference: 28052i
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Madonna lily or Bourbon lily (Lilium candidum): flower. Watercolour.
Reference: 21996i
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Maple tree (Acer) and black thorn or sloe (Prunus spinosa). Soft-ground etching with aquatint by J. Laporte, c. 1796, after himself.
Laporte, John, 1761-1839.Date: 22 February 1796Reference: 20751i
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Sappanwood tree (Caesalpinia sappan): flowering branch, pod and thorns. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799, after J. Ihle.
Ihle, Johann-Eberhard, 1727-1814.Date: 25 September 1799Reference: 25491i
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Palm tree (Cocos nucifera?) in arid landscape. Watercolour, 1862.
Date: 1862Reference: 22217i
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Six flowering plants, including mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) and wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
W. Dickes & Co.Date: [1855]Reference: 24771i
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Alkanet (Anchusa tinctoria L.): flowering stem with separate leaf and floral segments and description of the plant and its medicinal uses. Coloured line engraving by C. H. Hemerich, c. 1759, after T. Sheldrake.
Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1740-1770.Date: [1759]Reference: 18159i
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A tropical plant (Acokanthera spectabilis): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1872, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1872]Reference: 25906i
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Three species of bryony (Bryonia) plant: flowering stems with leaves. Line engraving by J. Hill, c. 1773, after himself.
Hill, John, active 1716-1720.Date: [1759-1775]Reference: 20742i
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Jasmine (Jasminum species): branch with flowers and fruit and separate sections of flowers and fruits with seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16282i
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Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare): entire flowering plant. Watercolour.
Reference: 22408i
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Common box tree (Buxus sempervirens L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H. Hemerich, c.1759, after T. Sheldrake.
Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1740-1770.Date: [1759]Reference: 18221i
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Female liane of Chilli (Lardizabala biternata Ruíz & Pavón): fruiting stem with tendrils and floral segments. Engraving by Heath, c.1798, after Prevost.
Prévost, Benoît Louis, approximately 1735-1804?Date: 1 November 1798Reference: 18604i
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Pineapple (Ananas comosus): large fruit on the end of a leafy stem. Coloured zincograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.
Burnett, M. A., active 1850.Date: [1839-42]Reference: 23798i
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Hemlock (Conium maculatum): flowering plants growing by a river. Colour process print, c. 1924.
Date: 1 March 1924Reference: 25599i
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Friar's cowl (Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16905i