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Herb Christopher (Actaea spicata L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
Date: [1778]Reference: 17362i
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Solomon's seal (Polygonatum odoratum (Mill.) Druce): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16590i
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A plant (Barringtonia speciosa): flowering stem. Engraving, c. 1777, after W. Hodges.
Hodges, William, 1744-1797.Date: 1 February 1777Reference: 20880i
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The medicinal and poisonous plants of India / Jean Ferdinand Caius.
Caius, Jean Ferdinand, 1877-1944.Date: 1986
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Castor oil plant (Ricinus communis): flowering and fruiting stem, leaf and fruit sections. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.
Burnett, M. A., active 1850.Date: [1847]Reference: 23822i
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May apple or American mandrake (Podophyllum peltatum L.): flowering plant with separate segments of fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
Reference: 17244i
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The nature and origin of the poison of Lotus Arabicus / by Wyndham R. Dunstan and T.A. Henry.
Dunstan, Wyndham R. (Wyndham Rowland), 1861-1949.Date: 1901
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Four poisonous plants: hemlock (Conium maculatum), henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), opium lettuce (Lactuca virosa) and autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale). Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone.
Date: 1855Reference: 28008i
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A Christmas rose (Helleborus niger), a poppy (Papaver species) and borage (Borago officinalis): flowering stems. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
Robert, Nicolas, 1614-1685.Date: [c. 1660]Reference: 24913i
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Fungi: twenty species, including the fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), death cap (Amanita phalloides) and Boletus and Agaricus species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, c. 1827, after Prieur.
Prieur, active 1820-1830.Date: [1827]Reference: 20597i
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Lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria species): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16586i
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Aydın ve muğla illerinde yetįsen tıbb̂ı ve zehirli bitkilerden en önemlilerinin farmakolojik-toksikolojik : etkilerile bunlardan hazırlanacak galenik preparatların yabancı memleket müstahzarları ile mukayeseleri / ̨Sahin Akman.
Akman, ̨Sahin.Date: 1952
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Buttercup (Ranunculus sp.): flowering and stoloniferous stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 18003i
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Tobacco (Nicotiana sp.): flowering stem with separate leaf. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16758i
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The male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas): fronds and part of rhizome. Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.
Date: 1853 [1854]Reference: 23766i
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Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870.Date: 1861Reference: 24544i
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A plant (Aristolochia rotunda L.) related to birthwort: entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16906i
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Squill or sea onion (Drimia maritima): flowering stem, bulb, leaf and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.
Burnett, M. A., active 1850.Date: [1847]Reference: 23823i
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Green hellebore (Helleborus viridis L.): leaf, inflorescence, flower, root and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
Date: [1778]Reference: 17338i
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A plant related to birthwort, (Aristolochia longa L.): flowering stem with separate rhizome and sections of fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16908i
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White bryony (Bryonia dioica. Family: Curcurbitaceae) : DF 118 releases the patient from severe pain...without narcotics.
Date: [1966]
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An oleander plant (Nerium oleander): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after A. Bétrérnieux (?).
Bétrérnieux, A.Date: 1850Reference: 27086i
Part of: Macédoines variées
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Medical botany, or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh and Dublin pharmacopoeias; comprising a popular and scientific account of all those poisonous vegetables that are indigenous to Great Britain / By John Stephenson, M.D. ... and James Morss Churchill, F.L.S.
Stephenson, John, 1790-1864.Date: 1831
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Aconite or monkshood (Aconitum napellus L.): flowering stem with separate labelled floral segments. Engraving by J.Caldwall, c.1804, after P. Henderson.
Henderson, Peter, active 1799-1829.Date: December 1804Reference: 18308i
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A Christmas rose or black hellebore (Helleborus niger): flowering stem. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
Robert, Nicolas, 1614-1685.Date: [c. 1660]Reference: 24910i