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  • Fever bark (Croton balsamifer Jacq.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Aerva tomentosa Lam.: flowering stem with separate leaf and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • West Indian Snake Bark (Colubrina ferruginea Brongn.): leafy stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Meadow rue (Thalictrum angustifolium L.): flowering stem with separate fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Clubmoss (Lycopodium dichotomum): fertile stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Wild carrot (Daucus carota L.): flowering stem with separate root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Khella (Ammi visnaga (L.) Lam.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate root, flower and fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Gynura cernua Benth.: entire flowering plant with separate flowering stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Celosia trigyna L.: two sections of the flowering stem with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Hedge sison (Sison amomum L.): flowering stem with separate leaf, flower and fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • A plant (Salvia virgata Ait.) related to sage: flowering and fruiting stem with separate flowering shoot. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • A plant (Salvia indica L.) related to sage: two sections of a flowering stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Foxglove (Digitalis parviflora Jacq.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate leaf, fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Thrift or sea-pink (Armeria maritima (Miller) Willd.): flowering stem with root. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.): entire flowering plant with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Cucumber, (Cucumis prophetarum): flowering and fruiting stems with sectioned fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Horsemint (Mentha longifolia (L.) Huds.): entire flowering plant with separate flower. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Foxglove (Digitalis obscura L.): flowering stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Bugloss (Echium lycopsis L.): entire flowering plant. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Yuquilla (Manihot carthaginensis (Jacq.) Mill.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Ammi (Trachyspermum ammi (L.) Sprague): flowering stem with separate root, flower, fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.
  • Tumeric (Curcuma longa L.): rhizome with flowering stem and separate leaf and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Platanus orientalis subsp insularis
  • Plan of the Royal Botanic Society's Gardens, Regents Park. Drawing after H. Laxton, 1839.
  • Heuchera 'Silver Scrolls'
  • Rudbeckia cultivar
  • Stokesia laevis Greene Asteraceae. Stoke's Aster, Cornflower Aster. Distribution: South-eastern USA. Named by Charles Louis L’Héritier in 1789 for Dr Jonathan Stokes (1755-1831), a member of the Lunar Society and Linnean Society, botanist and physician. Stokes dedicated his thesis on dephlogisticated air [later realised to be oxygen] to Dr William Withering and wrote the preface to Withering’s iconic work On the Foxglove (1785). He also contributed histories on six patients he had treated for heart failure (‘dropsy’) with foxglove leaf, Digitalis, in his medical practice in Stourbridge. He continued at the Lunar Society until 1788
  • Brugmansia suaveolens 'Pink Beauty'
  • Brugmansia suaveolens'Pink Beauty'
  • Magnolia 'Black Diamond'