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  • Microscope drawings of plant anatomy with cells and growing points. Lithograph after C. Varley, c.1834.
  • Anatomy and botany: top, skull, jawbone, and muscles of head; bottom, hellebore plant. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • Microscope drawings of plant anatomy with cells and tissues of stonewort (Chara and Nitella species). Lithograph after C. Varley, c.1834.
  • Anatomy and botany; top left, dissected head and chest showing arteries; top right, larynx; bottom left, buckthorn plant; centre, surgical instruments; bottom right, electric ray fish. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • Anatomy and botany; top left, dissected head and chest; top right, dissected thorax; centre left, forceps; centre right, man with tumours on his head; bottom left, belladona plant. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • Knautia macedonica Griseb. Dipsacaceae. Distribution: Macedonia. This honours the brothers Knaut, both physicians and botanists: Christof Knaut (also Knauth, 1638–94) and his brother Christian Knaut (1654–1716). The plant was traditionally used as a compress in its native Balkans to relieve dermatitis and itching. This use is a local survival of what was once a widespread application of this plant and its relations, and is an example of the doctrine of signatures in which the therapeutic benefit of a plant is suggested by some aspect of its anatomy
  • N. Grew, the anatomy of plants / With an ide
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • Johan van Beverwijk: he converses with Apollo about medicinal plants, while surrounded by attributes of botany, anatomy and surgery. Line engraving by C. van Dalen the younger (?) after C. de Passe the younger (?), 1656.
  • A systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects, and plants ... Illustrated with many schemes ... engraven in seventy four ... plates. And after every part of man's body hath been anatomically described, its diseases, cases, and cures are concisely exhibited ... / [Samuel Collins].
  • A systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects, and plants ... Illustrated with many schemes ... engraven in seventy four ... plates. And after every part of man's body hath been anatomically described, its diseases, cases, and cures are concisely exhibited ... / [Samuel Collins].
  • A systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects, and plants ... Illustrated with many schemes ... engraven in seventy four ... plates. And after every part of man's body hath been anatomically described, its diseases, cases, and cures are concisely exhibited ... / [Samuel Collins].
  • A systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects, and plants ... Illustrated with many schemes ... engraven in seventy four ... plates. And after every part of man's body hath been anatomically described, its diseases, cases, and cures are concisely exhibited ... / [Samuel Collins].
  • A systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects, and plants ... Illustrated with many schemes ... engraven in seventy four ... plates. And after every part of man's body hath been anatomically described, its diseases, cases, and cures are concisely exhibited ... / [Samuel Collins].
  • Various stem forms, including bulbs and roots. Watercolour by I. Sawkins.
  • A plant (Tritonia xanthospila): flowering stem, bulb and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.
  • Seven flowering plants, all species of the genus Tritonia. Coloured lithograph.
  • A crocus (Crocus stellaris): entire flowering plant and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1812.
  • Five flowering bulbous plants, all species of the genus Scilla. Coloured lithograph.
  • The dissected flowers of five plants: a grass, rye, wheat, vernal grass and chamomile. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • A crocus: entire flowering plant with separate bulb and floral segments. Watercolour.
  • Sections of wood from the stem of a date palm (Phoenix dactylifera). Coloured aquatint by G. Carocci, 1839, after D. del Rè, 1833.