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  • Tiger Lily
  • Tiger Lily
  • Caspar Bauhin. Line engraving by J. F. Borgnet, 1784.
  • Bergenia 'Bressingham Ruby'
  • Roxburgh (?). Oil painting.
  • Jean Riolan. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu.
  • Magnolia 'Black Diamond'
  • The first edition of Steward's healing art, corrected and improved by the original hand : to which he has added all his late improvements and new discoveries, both in physick and surgery, from the year 1812 to the year 1826 ... : to which he has added, A concise herbal ... / by William Steward.
  • Pietro Andrea Mattioli. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu.
  • Autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale): flowering plant, leaves and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Rohdea japonica Roth Convallariaceae Distribution: Japan. It is a monotypic genus known as omoto in Japan, meaning ‘evergreen’. It is regarded as a symbol of long life and good fortune
  • Two female figures standing on either side of drapery bearing the title of Vesling's Syntagma anatomicum: beyond, the anatomy theatre of the University of Padua. Engraving by Giovanni Georgi, 1647.
  • George Lloyd in Arab dress reclining and smoking a hookah. Coloured lithograph by Lemoine, ca. 1851.
  • George Lloyd in Arab dress reclining and smoking a hookah. Coloured lithograph by Lemoine, ca. 1851.
  • Zinnia cultivar
  • Zinnia cultivar
  • Zinnia cultivar
  • Leaf, Turkey Oak (Quercus cerris)
  • Those who named the plants: Adam, Solomon, Theophrastus, and Dioscorides. Oil paintings.
  • Podophyllum peltatum (May apple or American mandrake)
  • An anatomical dissection by Pieter Pauw in the Leiden anatomy theatre. Engraving by Andries Stock after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn II, 1615.
  • An anatomical dissection by Pieter Pauw in the Leiden anatomy theatre. Engraving by Andries Stock after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn II, 1615.
  • Potentilla thurberi 'Monarch's Velvet'
  • John (?) Watson. Pastel attributed to W. Watson, 174-.
  • John (?) Watson. Pastel attributed to W. Watson, 174-.
  • Sir W. Denison and others planting the first quinine tree in the Neilgherry hills, India. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1862.
  • Sir W. Denison and others planting the first quinine tree in the Neilgherry hills, India. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1862.
  • Sir W. Denison and others planting the first quinine tree in the Neilgherry hills, India. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1862.