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  • Clove plant (Syzygium aromaticum): stem with flower buds. Watercolour, c.1833.
  • Clove tree (Syzygium aromaticum): flowering and fruiting stem with cloves and parasitic worm. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1808, after J. Ihle.
  • Clove tree (Syzygium aromaticum): flowering stem and separate fruit. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.
  • Common garlic (Allium sativum): bulb, flower head, single flower and single clove. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1850.
  • A plant related to the clove tree (Eugenia species): flowering and fruiting stem and separate flowers, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Dianthus caryophyllus L. Caryophyllaceae Carnation, clove-gilliflowers - Mediterranean Culpeper (1650) writes that ‘Clove-gilliflowers, resist the pestilence, strengthen the heart, liver and stomach, and provokes lust.’ They smell strongly of cloves, and an oil made from the petals is used in perfumery, soaps etc. The petals are sometimes used as a garnish for salads. In herbal medicine they are used to make a tonic. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Above, a sprig of a clove tree, a beetle, two sprigs of a cassia tree bearing leaves from which senna is extracted, a beaver and three different cavies (small rodents); below, two beetles and a mocking creeper. Etching by Heath.
  • Eugenia caryophyllus (Cloves)
  • Clover's chloroform apparatus.
  • Anaesthetics: J.T. Clover
  • Trifolium Pratense (Red Clover)
  • Portrait of Joseph Clover
  • Helwan, Egypt; harvesting sweet clover
  • Helwan, Egypt; harvesting sweet clover
  • Helwan, Egypt; harvesting sweet clover
  • Helwan, Egypt; harvesting sweet clover
  • Helwan, Egypt; smallholding growing sweet clover
  • Helwan, Egypt; women carrying sweet clover
  • M0006962: Clover's chloroform appartus for inhaler
  • Joseph Clover administering chroloform from his inhaler.
  • Portrait of Joseph Clover, head and shoulders.
  • Melilotus officinalis (Common melilot). Also known as Sweet clover
  • Melilotus officinalis (Common melilot). Also known as Sweet clover
  • A grassland plant, possibly a clover (Trifolium species): flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • A plant (Onobrychis sativa) related to holy clover): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1902.
  • Clovers Portable Inhaler
  • A clover (Trifolium ochroleucum): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
  • Three plants, including a large flowering stem of yellow melilot or sweet clover (Melilotus officinalis). Watercolour.
  • Clover (Trifolium suffocatum L.): entire flowering plant with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Seven garden plants, including a lupin and buffalo clover: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.