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  • Five flowering plants, including hornworts (Ceratophyllum species) and nettles (Urtica species). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • Urtica Dioica (Stinging Nettle)
  • Robert Hooke, Micrographia, stinging nettle.
  • Stinging hairs on a nettle leaf
  • Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) stem, SEM
  • A red dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum) and white dead-nettle (Lamium album). Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after F. E. Hulme.
  • Two plants, one possibly a dead nettle (Lamium species): flowering stems. Watercolour.
  • Nettle (Urtica nivea L.): flowering stem with separate flower and fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.
  • Hedge nettle or woundwort (Stachys arvensis): flowering stem, roots and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1803.
  • Woundwort or hedge nettle (Stachys arvensis): entire flowering plant with separate flowers. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1775.
  • Woundwort or hedge nettle (Stachys arvensis): flowering and fruiting stem with separate floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1775.
  • A plant (Acalypha villosa Jacq.) related to Indian nettle: separate flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • White dead nettle (Lamium album) and common bugle (Ajuga reptans): entire flowering plants. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Four examples of thorny or hairy plant stems: a rose, barberry, plum and stinging nettle. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
  • Four new natural health supplements for dogs : Vitapet, the best for any pet / Seven Seas Veterinary Division.
  • Four new natural health supplements for dogs : Vitapet, the best for any pet / Seven Seas Veterinary Division.
  • Summer itches, bites & stings : their treatment and relief : Lanacane.
  • Summer itches, bites & stings : their treatment and relief : Lanacane.
  • Summer itches, bites & stings : their treatment and relief : Lanacane.
  • Summer itches, bites & stings : their treatment and relief : Lanacane.
  • Laminum album (white deadnettle)
  • A plant (Stachys sp.) related to betony: flowering stem with separate leaf and floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1775.
  • Sir Hugh Spencer (Hugh Le Despenser) fastened to a ladder and disembowled alive in Hereford while a crowd of spectators gathers around a fire below the ladders. Coloured lithograph.
  • Sir Hugh Spencer (Hugh Le Despenser) fastened to a ladder and disembowled alive in Hereford while a crowd of spectators gathers around a fire below the ladders. Coloured lithograph.
  • Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Four flowering plants, all types of goosefoot (Chenopodium species). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • Various leaf forms and flower parts. Watercolour by I. Sawkins.