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Botany - Germany

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  • White bryony (Bryonia dioica): flowering plant. Woodcut.
  • Fifteen examples of different types of flower calyx, including five types of pappus. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • Five roots of different forms: spindle-shaped (carrot), fibrous (grass), beet-shaped (radish), tuberous (water hemlock), and onion-shaped (onion). Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • Six flowering plants, all with a different type of compound inflorescence. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • Six plants, all with a different type of fruit or inflorescence. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
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    Eleven single flowers, all with a different shape or form. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.

    | Date: [c. 1850] | Reference: 28509i
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    Seven leaves of different forms, including dandelion, rose, poppy, nasturtium and potato. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.

    Ruprecht, H. J. | Date: [1877] | Reference: 27048i
    Part of: Pflanzenreich
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    Ten seedlings with different types of cotyledon or seed leaves. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.

    | Date: [c. 1850] | Reference: 28434i
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    White bryony (Bryonia dioica): flowering plant. Woodcut.

    | Reference: 27931i
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    A larkspur (Consolida species) (?): flowering plant, leaf and floral segments. Woodcut.

    | Reference: 27930i
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