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  • James Henry Lambier, "the American giant". Drawing.
  • Peter Zamara, an HIV positive man, sits leaning against a baseball post holding a ball; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.
  • Rubus spectabilis 'Olympic Double'
  • Oenothera macrocarpa Nutt. Onagraceae. Ozark Sundrops, Bigfruit Evening Primrose. Formerly O. missouriensis. Distribution: South central USA. O. macrocarpa does not appear to have been used medicinally, but other species are so used. Austin (2004) records that O. biennis (Evening Primrose) was used by Native Americans as a potherb in West Virginia. Leaves as salad, roots boiled like potato also infusion to treat obesity and relieve piles (Cherokee)
  • Human macrophage rupturing after infection with Chlamydia
  • Callicarpa bodinieri var giraldii 'Profusion'
  • Podophyllum peltatum (May apple or American mandrake)
  • Slave ships on the ocean. Wood engraving by Smyth, 1858.