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  • Six grasses: fescues (Festuca species), foxtail grass (Alopecurus pratensis), meadow grasses (Poa species) and sweet vernal grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1807.
  • Seven grasses including fescues (Festuca species), dog's tail grass (Cynosurus cristatus), meadow grasses (Poa species) and ryegrass (Lolium species). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1807.
  • A fern frond, leaves and grasses framing a rectangular space. Nature print.
  • An Amazonian Indian child, next to a whitewashed wall with tall grasses all around.
  • Denrées diverses : A : valable du 1er au 31 mai 1944 inclus : matières grasses.
  • Denrées diverses : A : valable du 1er au 31 mai 1944 inclus : matières grasses.
  • Six flowering plants, including whitlow grasses (Erophila species) and awlwort (Subularia aquatica). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • Actor Ichikawa Kodanji seated on bedding revealing a tattoo of a skull amid grasses on his left arm. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1861.
  • Hay fever: a calendar showing effects of various grasses etc. on hay fever sufferers in different months. Colour lithograph for the Nederlands Astma Fonds, 1999.
  • Four seedheads of different grasses (Gramineae species): Cynosorus crocanus, buntee?, Paspalum kora and Panicum miliaceum or common millet. Coloured aquatint by W. Hooker after J. Forbes, 1780.
  • Cymbophogon citratus, Lemon grass
  • Ophiopogon japonicus (Mondo grass).
  • Drawing: female Grass Snake's organs
  • Ming herbal (painting): Ciliate desert grass
  • Nepal; agriculture in the Khumbu, 1986. Pangboche (altitude 4200 metres), showing the tiny, walled terraced fields on which Sherpas cultivate their staple crops (potatoes, barley, wheat). Potatoes are rarely grown beyond 4000 metres but barley is grown at higher altitudes. Scattered juniper and birch trees share this terrain with sub-alpine grasses. Few people live permanently beyond this village amid the last scattered trees below the treeline.
  • The dissected flowers of five plants: a grass, rye, wheat, vernal grass and chamomile. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • Samuel Grass. Line engraving by B. Strahowsky.
  • SEM Phytophthora spores on rye grass root
  • Parts of 3 woven grass mats, patterned.
  • A litter of puppies reared on grass.
  • Apothecary bottle used for scury-grass water.
  • Apothecary bottle used for scurvy-grass water.
  • Four British wild flowers, including whitlow grass (Erophila species) and scurvy grass (Cochlearia officinalis). Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.
  • Two grass plants, one possibly a bamboo. Watercolour.
  • A grasshopper on a grass plant stem. Watercolour.
  • Daffodil (Narcissus species): flowering plants in grass. Watercolour.
  • Grass seed covered in bacteria from infected dog's paw
  • Grass seed covered in bacteria from infected dog's paw
  • A grass (Panicum species): seed head and stalk. Watercolour.
  • Parts of 4 woven grass mats, patterned and plain.