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  • Two plants, a leguminous species with pods (left) and a flowering iris (right) Watercolour.
  • Ten flowering plants, including two orchids and an iris. Coloured transfer lithograph, c. 1833.
  • Ten flowering plants, including two orchids and an iris. Coloured transfer lithograph, c. 1833.
  • Eight plants, including two orchids and an iris: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Seven garden plants, including an iris: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Iris graminea L. Iridaceae Grass-leaved flag. Flower de Luce. Distribution: Central and Southern Europe. This is probably the Iris bulbosa minor sive angustifolia [the lesser bulbed or narrow-leaved Iris], Lesser bulbed Flower de luce of Parkinson (1640). He advised that the properties of all Flag Irises were more or less the same, but says there is no agreement about the properties of the bulbous kinds (such as this plant). Of the Flag Irises, Culpeper (1650) writes that the roots 'resist poison, help shortness of the breath, prove the terms [menstruation]
  • Three plants, including a cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) and an iris: flowering stems with two grasshoppers. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • Butterfly iris (Moraea sp.): entire flowering plant with separate fruiting stem and sections of leaf and bulb. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Iris triflora : iris à trois fleurs / par P.J. Redouté.
  • Iris triflora : iris à trois fleurs / par P.J. Redouté.
  • Cream iris flowers. Watercolour by J. A. Sherlock, 1901.
  • Blue iris flowers. Watercolour by A. Sherlock, 1901.
  • Two iris flowers. Watercolour by E. Finlaison.
  • A mauve iris flower with leaves. Watercolour.
  • Seven types of iris (Iris species): flowering stems. Coloured lithograph.
  • Seven types of iris (Iris species): flowering stems. Coloured lithograph.
  • Five types of iris (Iris species): flowering stems. Coloured lithograph.
  • Five types of iris (Iris species): flowering stems. Coloured lithograph.
  • Japanese matsuzaki iris (Iris kaempferi cv.): mauve flowers and leaves. Watercolour.
  • An iris; flowers and birds; two ladies, one with a baby. Ink drawings.
  • A flowering blue iris (Marica cærulea) with large, ornate border. Chromolithograph by O. Jones, 1845.
  • A purple iris (Iris sambucina): flower and leaf. Coloured engraving, c. 1792.
  • A yellow iris (Iris variegata): flower and leaf. Coloured engraving by J. Sowerby, c. 1787, after himself.
  • An English iris (Iris latifolia): flower and leaf. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1803, after S. Edwards.
  • A flowering iris. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after Guenébeaud.
  • A flowering blue flag iris (Marica caerulea) Chromolithograph, c. 1888, after H. Moon.
  • White lily striped with purple (Lilium sp.) and two irises (Iris sp.) Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher, c. 1730, after J. van Huysum.
  • An iris (Iris persica), a fungus (Isaria species) and quillwort (Isoetes species) Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1811.
  • Flag iris (Iris x germanica): flower and rhizome with some leaves. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.
  • Yellow flag (Iris pseudacorus): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1904.