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  • Fertility flower
  • Illustration of relief showing fertility Goddess
  • Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Ancient Canaanite Teraphim. Figurines of fertility goddess.
  • Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Amuletic stone figurines to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Min, Egyptian god of fertility, wall relief
  • Min, Egyptian god of fertility, wall relief
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of square plaques, decorated.
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of a group of animals. Photographed to show their heads.
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of a group of animals. Photographed to show their heads.
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of a group of animals. Photographed to show their heads.
  • Amuletic objects of stone to ensure fertility, Bolivia. In the form of a group of animals. Photographed to show the top of the group.
  • A statue of Priapus, the god of natural reproduction with baskets and swags of fruit as symbols of male fertility and the earth's fecundity. Engraving by J. Lamsvelt.
  • A woman patient at a spa is told by her doctor that the treatment for her fertility might be helped by the presence of a 'diverting friend' - i.e. him. Lithograph by M. Stephane, c. 1896.
  • Trifolium rubens L. Leguminosae. [Note the Family Leguminosae is preferred over Family Fabaceae as the former allows all the legumes to be in one Family and not three - one Family being the current consensus among botanists]. Red Feather Clover. Distribution: Europe. The white clover, Trifolium repens, is listed as a treatment for arthritis by Linnaeus (1782). This and Trifolium pratense, Red Clover, are the ones most used for pastures. All the clovers have root nodules which fix nitrogen from the air into the soil so have an important role in ensuring soil fertility. Trifolium rubens has the same nitrogen fixing ability, and is used as an ornamental garden plant where it still acts to improve fertility. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Desert and fertile land watered by the Nile
  • Dorsal view of zebrafish brain (4 day-post fertilization)
  • Clubmoss (Lycopodium dichotomum): fertile stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • A clubmoss (Lycopodium alpinum): fertile leafy stem and segments of sporangia. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1795.
  • A clubmoss (Lycopodium selago): fertile leafy stem and segments of sporangia. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1795.
  • God hangs over the world, gathering the waters and creating fertile earth. Line engraving by F. Villamena after Raphael.
  • The third day of Creation: God creates the fertile earth. Line engraving by E. van den Bosche after M. de Vos.
  • Adder's tongue (Ophioglossum vulgatum L.): fertile stem with description of the plant and its medicinal uses. Coloured line engraving by J. Basire, the younger, c. 1759, after T. Sheldrake.