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  • Two flowering anemones. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850.
  • Two water newts, sea anemones and water plants. Colour line block.
  • No. 1 of a series of modern flower paintings by Edmond X. Kapp : Red Anemones (1955) : contemporary treatment.
  • No. 1 of a series of modern flower paintings by Edmond X. Kapp : Red Anemones (1955) : contemporary treatment.
  • No. 1 of a series of modern flower paintings by Edmond X. Kapp : Red Anemones (1955) : contemporary treatment.
  • No. 1 of a series of modern flower paintings by Edmond X. Kapp : Red Anemones (1955) : contemporary treatment.
  • A variety of sea anemones on the ground of an aquarium. Wood engraving.
  • A marine aquarium furnished with sea-anemones, sea-cucumbers and starfish. Wood engraving.
  • Cross-sections of zoophytes, including corals, sea anemones and sponges. Lithograph by C. Busk.
  • An anemone (Anemone hortensis): flowering plant. Coloured engraving, c. 1790.
  • Anemone flowers. Watercolour.
  • Anemone pulsatilla (Pasque flower)
  • An anemone (Anemone alba): flowering plant. Coloured engraving by Weddell, c. 1820, after J. Curtis.
  • An anemone plant (Anemone apennina) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
  • An anemone plant (Anemone species): three flowers and a leaf. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • An anemone (Anemone species): flowering stem and leaf. Coloured engraving by S. Watts, c. 1831, after M. Hart.
  • Blue anemone flower pollen grain, SEM
  • An anemone (Anemone species) and lily (Lilium species): flowering stems with butterfly. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • Three flowering plants, including a lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) and an anemone (Anemone species). Nature print by F. Branson, 1854.
  • An Anemone plant: two flowering stems, one in outline only. Etching, c. 1787.
  • A serpent-haired sea-anemone and three species of star-fish. Wood engraving.
  • A serpent-haired sea-anemone and three species of star-fish. Wood engraving.
  • Anemone plant: flowering stem. Coloured engraving by J. S. Seligmann, c. 1768, after himself.
  • Four flowering plants, including a legume, a labiate and an anemone. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • A flowering plant, possibly an anemone, also two leaves and a fruit cluster. Watercolour.
  • An unusual degree of tolerance ... Paynocil : the hermit crab and the sea anemone.
  • An unusual degree of tolerance ... Paynocil : the hermit crab and the sea anemone.
  • An unusual degree of tolerance ... Paynocil : the hermit crab and the sea anemone.
  • Pulsatilla vulgaris Mill. Ranunculaceae Distribution: Europe. Lindley (1838) and Woodville (1790) knew this as Anemone pulsatilla, the common name being Pasque (Easter) Flower. At the end of the 18th century it was recommended for blindness, cataracts, syphilis, strokes and much more, treatments which, as was clear to physicians at the time, were valueless. Gerard (1633) writes: ‘They serve only for the adorning of gardens and garlands, being floures of great beauty’. It is in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, all members of which are poisonous. It was recommended, by mouth, for ‘obstinate case of taenia’ (tapeworms). One hopes it was more toxic to the worm than the patient. Flowers with a central disc and radiating florets were regarded as being good for eye complaints under the Doctrine of Signatures. Porta (1588) writes (translated): ‘Argemone [Papaver argemone], and anemone, have flowers of this shape, from this they cure ulcers and cloudiness of the cornea’. There were occupational diseases even before there were words like pneumoconiosis, and Lindley writes that ‘the powder of the root causes itching of the eyes, colic and vomiting, if in pulverising it the operator do not avoid the fine dust which is driven up.’ Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Pulsatilla vulgaris Mill. Ranunculaceae. Pasque flower. Distribution: Europe. Lindley (1838) and Woodville (1790) knew this as Anemone pulsatilla, the common name being Pasque (Easter) Flower. At the end of the 18th century it was recommended for blindness, cataracts, syphilis, strokes and much more, treatments which, as was clear to physicians at the time, were valueless. Gerard (1633) writes: ‘They serve only for the adorning of gardens and garlands, being floures of great beauty’. It is in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, all members of which are poisonous. It was recommended, by mouth, for ‘obstinate case of taenia’ (tapeworms). One hopes it was more toxic to the worm than the patient. Flowers with a central disc and radiating florets were regarded as being good for eye complaints under the Doctrine of Signatures. Porta (1588) writes (translated): ‘Argemone [Papaver argemone], and anemone, have flowers of this shape, from this they cure ulcers and cloudiness of the cornea’. There were occupational diseases even before there were words like pneumoconiosis, and Lindley writes that ‘the powder of the root causes itching of the eyes, colic and vomiting, if in pulverising it the operator do not avoid the fine dust which is driven up.’ Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.