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  • A fungus (Hygrocybe conica): three fruiting bodies. Watercolour by R. Baker, 1894.
  • An earth-star fungus (Geastrum fornicatum): two fruiting bodies. Watercolour by R. Baker.
  • A flowering plant (Loranthus bicolor) and two ciphers of the artist, Melchior Lorch. Etching by J. Pass, c. 1814.
  • Two different mosses: five clumps of which three have slender stalked sporophytes. Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.
  • Biscutella alpestris: entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate floral segments. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, ca. 1802.
  • Greater celandine (Chelidonium majus): flowering and fruiting stem. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
  • Clearweed (Pilea pubescens): flowering stem. Coloured engraving by Weddell, c. 1824, after J. Curtis.
  • A plant (Whiteheadia latifolia): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured engraving, c. 1804, after H. Andrews.
  • A plant (Amaranthus cruentus): flowering stem. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1797, after J. Ihle.
  • Hesperis africana: entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.
  • Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria): flowering stem. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
  • A plant (Peperomia acuminata): flowering stem. Coloured engraving, c. 1817.
  • A plant (Whiteheadia latifolia): flowering plant. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1805, after S. Edwards.
  • A plant (Duvalia elegans): flowering plant. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1809, after S. Edwards.
  • A plant (Nigella nigellastrum): flowering stem. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1810, after S. Edwards.
  • Tree sorrel or sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum): flowering stem. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1806, after S. Edwards.
  • A plant (Eugenia disticha): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1805, after S. Edwards.
  • A plant (Wurmbea capensis): flowering plant and floral segments. Coloured engraving, c. 1802, after H. Andrews.
  • Broad-leaved masson (Massonia sanguinea): flowering plant. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1805, after S. Edwards.
  • Wild spikenard (Smilacina racemosa): flowering stem. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1806, after S. Edwards.
  • A leguminous plant (Sphaerolobium vimineum): flowering stem. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1806, after S. Edwards.
  • An orchid (Pogonia bulbosa): flowering plant and floral segments. Coloured engraving, c. 1803, after H. Andrews.
  • A type of buttercup (Ranunculus sceleratus): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by A. Duménil, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • A bird's-tongue plant (Ornithoglossum glaucum): flowering plant and floral segments. Coloured engraving, c. 1802, after H. Andrews.
  • Fumitory (Fumaria officinalis): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by A. Duménil, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Rest-harrow (Ononis repens): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • A plant (Euphorbia viridiflora) related to spurge: entire flowering plant with separate flower. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.
  • Water parsnip (Sium latifolium): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • An orchid (Otochilus fusca): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured engraving by J. Swan, c. 1842, after W. Fitch.
  • Four fruiting and flowering plants all with different types of pod. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.