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  • Ononis spinosa (Spiny restharrow)
  • Engraving og a Spinosa Plant
  • Capers (Caparis spinosa): flowering stem. Watercolour by J. E. F.
  • A plant (Atalantia spinosa): branch with flowers and fruit, cross-section of fruit, seed and style.
  • Drypis spinosa L.: flowering stem with separate flower, fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Cleome spinosa: flowering and fruiting stem with separate root, floral segments and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • Three British fruit trees, sloe (Prunus spinosa), wild cherry (Prunus avium) and bird cherry (Prunus padus). Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, after H. Humphreys.
  • Sloe or blackthorn (Prunus spinosa L.): flowering stem with separate fruit and segments of flower and fruit, also a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H.Hemerich, c.1759, after T.Sheldrake.
  • Aralia spinosa L. Araliaceae. Devil's walking stick, Prickly ash, Hercules' club. Tree. Distribution: Eastern North America. Contact with sap causes skin irritation, raw berries mildly toxic to humans, causing diarrhoea and vomiting. Eaten by bears. Used medicinally by Native Americans for a variety of conditions. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Paleozoic examples of Pathology: a large paleozoic spinose Trilobite Terataspis Grandis Hall etc., showing the exaggerated spines as indications of racial senescence
  • Fagonia cretica L.: entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
  • Goat's thorn (Astragalus): flowering stem and floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.
  • Burnet (Sanguisorba sp.): fruiting stems rising from woody stock with separate fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Benedictus (Baruch) Spinoza. Line engraving by E. Fessard, 1744.
  • A species of the genus Lantana: flowering stem with separate flower. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Heraclitus. Line engraving by L. M. Halbou after a painting attributed to J. Ribera.
  • Amaranthus spinosus L.: flowering stem with separate root and floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • A plant (Cerinthe retorta Sibth. & Sm.): flowering plant with separate fruit and flower section. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • A palm tree (Socratea exorrhiza (Mart.) H. Wendl.), with aerial roots. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846.