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  • Fever bark (Croton coccineum Willd.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate sections of flower and fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • A spurge (Euphorbia stricta): flowering stem, leaves, roots and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1796.
  • Cassava or tapioca plant (Manihot esculenta): leafy stem and tuberous roots. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1809.
  • Kamala (a species of Mallotus): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flower and fruit and cross-section of fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • A plant (Euphorbia paralias) related to spurge: entire flowering plant with separate flower and fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.
  • Four flowering plants, three types of spurge (Euphorbia species) and box (Buxus sempervirens). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • Cascarilla bark plant (Croton eluteria): flowering stem, bark and floral segments. Colour halftone after J. Lambert, c. 1844, after P. Turpin.
  • Fever bark (Croton balsamifer Jacq.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Three plants, an anenome, a mercury and a crocus: entire flowering plants. Colour nature print, c. 1860.
  • Four flowering plants, including asarabacca (Asarum europaeum) and two mercury plants (Mercurialis species). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau: workers preparing cakes from manioc root, within a decorative border. Engraving, c. 1777.
  • Pendo tree (Jatropha urens L.): flowering stem and separate fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Huru (Hura crepitans L.) and bull bay (Magnolia grandiflora L.): detailed flower and fruit segments with description. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • A spurge plant (Euphorbia portlandica) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • Castor oil plant (Ricinus communis): flowering and fruiting stem, leaf and fruit sections. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.
  • Six British wild flowers, including water pepper and knotweed (Polygonum species). Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.
  • Yuquilla (Manihot carthaginensis (Jacq.) Mill.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
  • Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii