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  • White bryony (Bryonia dioica. Family: Curcurbitaceae) : DF 118 releases the patient from severe pain...without narcotics.
  • Caper spurge (Euphorbia lathyrus. Family: Euphorbiaceae) : Corangil tablets.
  • Monkshood (Aconitum napellus): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured etching.
  • Water dropwort (Oenanthe sp.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate rootstock, flower and fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Eight fungi, including the fly agaric, chanterelle, Boletus edulis, field mushroom, puff ball, morel, dry-rot and ergot. Chromolithograph.
  • A tropical plant (Acokanthera spectabilis): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1872, after himself.
  • Two entire flowering plants, a yellow crocus (Crocus species) and a herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia). Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.
  • Oleander or rose-bay (?Nerium oleander): flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • Water fennel (Oenanthe aquatica (L.) Poiret): flowering and fruiting stem with separate flower and fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
  • Spurge laurel (daphne laureola. Family: Thymelaeaceae) : Myolgin tablets.
  • Four flowering and fruiting plants: black bryony, herb Paris, common asparagus and butchers broom. Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • Hellebore (Helleborus atrorubens): fruiting stem with roots and separate flowering stem. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.
  • Water dropwort (Oenanthe crocata L.): flowering stem with separate root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis): flowering stem with leaves and separate roots. Partially coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.