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  • Dogbane (Apocynum sp.): fruiting stem with separate flower cluster, sectioned fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • A border of plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D., with the main plants labelled. Photograph.
  • Botanic Garden, Oxford: panoramic view of the greenhouses with a small ornamental detail of the gates and plans. Line engraving by J. Skelton, 1820, after B. Green.
  • Penny cress or Mithridate mustard (Thlaspi arvense L.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate segments of flower and fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • A plant (Aristolochia rotunda L.) related to birthwort: entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum L.): flowering plant with separate flower, fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • [Leaflet advertising Neal's Yard natural remedies, cosmetics, herbal tinctures and medicinal herbs & powders].
  • Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) and a garlic plant (Allium triquetrum): flowering stems and bulbs. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
  • Dill (Anethum graveolens L.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate root, flower and fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
  • Dragon arum (Dracunculus vulgaris Schott): leaf and base of stem with tuber. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Hyssop (Hyssop officinalis L.): flowering stem with separate leaves and floral segments and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H. Hemerich, c.1759, after T. Sheldrake.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Foxglove (Digitalis sp.): infloresence and separate leafy stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Theatrum botanicum: the theater of plants. Or, an herball of large extent: containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants that are in other authours, encreased by the access of many hundred new ... plants from all parts of the world, with sundry gummes, and other physicall material ... and a most large demonstration of their natures and vertues. Distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property ... collected ... / by John Parkinson Apothecary of London, and the Kings herbarist.
  • Bluebeard (Salvia viridis L.): two entire flowering stems numbered 1 and 2, with separate segments of flower, fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1775.
  • The herball or, generall historie of plantes / Gathered by John Gerarde.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Bugloss (a species of the genus Anchusa L.): flowering stem and separate leaves arising from earth mound. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • [Leaflet advertising Sunrider Foods from The Nutri Centre, Park Crescent, London and John Morley, Harley Street, London].
  • Bugloss (Echium lycopsis L.): flowering stem with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Germander (Teucrium boeticum): flowering stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1775.
  • Speedwell (Veronica sp.): entire flowering plant with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Valerian (Valeriana dioscoriodes Sibth.): flowering stem with separate rooting stem and floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.): entire flowering plant with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Grünland Ananas-Sahne-Käse-Creme : 60% Fett i.T. mit 10% Ananassaft / Allgäuer Käsewerke.
  • Figwort (Scrophularia sp.): flowering stem with separate flower. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Kräutersalz = Herb seasoning salt = sel aux herbes aromatiques : Herbamare : ein A.Vogel produkt / Bioforce.