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  • Three flowering plants, including coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), common rue (Ruta graveolens), and a legume. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Psorsalea palaestina: flowering and fruiting stem with separate leaf, fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.
  • A climbing leguminous plant: leafy stem with pods. Watercolour.
  • Japanese clover (Lespedeza sp.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate leaf, flower, fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • A grassland plant, possibly a clover (Trifolium species): flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • Dolichos pubescens: flowering and fruiting stem with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.
  • Seven British garden plants, including two orchids: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • East Indian or Malabar Kino (Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb.): branch with flowers, separate shoot bearing flowers and fruit and sections of flowers. Coloured line engraving.
  • Vetchling (Lathyrus species): flowering and fruiting stems. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
  • Vetch plant (Vicia species): flowering stem. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
  • Dyer's greenweed plant (Genista tinctoria) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • Seven British garden plants, including a coral tree: flowering stems and some floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • Carolina kidney bean plant (Phaeolus sp.) and virginian silk plant (Periploca sp.). Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher, c. 1730, after J. van Huysum.
  • A plant (Vigna catjang) related to cowpea: flowering and fruiting stem with separate pod and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Sappanwood tree (Caesalpinia sappan): flowering branch, pod and thorns. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799, after J. Ihle.
  • Glory pea (Clianthus puniceus): flowering stem, pod and seed. Coloured etching by S. Watts, c. 1835, after Miss Drake.
  • Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • A plant (Galega cinerea) related to goat's rue: flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured engraving by J.J. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • A climbing leguminous plant: leafy stem with pods. Watercolour.
  • Purging cassia or Indian laburnum (Cassia fistula): flowers, leaf, pod and seeds. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1843.
  • A leopard facing left surrounded by various named flowers and insects. Etching by W. Hollar, 1662, after himself.
  • Lessertia perennans DC.: flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Broom (Genista sibirica L.): flowering stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.
  • Seven garden plants, including two orchids: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1835.
  • A wisteria plant: flowering stems. Watercolour.
  • Seven garden plants, including an orchid: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Four British garden plants, including a glory pea: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • A thistle flower and crab's eyes plant (Abrus species). Watercolour.
  • Six flowering plants, possibly including a gorse, an Allium species and two Aquilegia species. Watercolour, c. 1870.