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  • A plant of the Verbenaceae family: flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • A fruiting plant, possibly of the Verbenaceae family. Watercolour.
  • Verbena bonariensis L. Verbenaceae. Purpletop Verbena. Distribution: South America. Verbena is Latin for the shoots of Laurel
  • Glory Bower (Clerodendron serratum Spreng.): two flowering shoots, infloresence and sections of flower, seed and fruit. Coloured line engraving.
  • Avicennia officinalis L.: branch with flowers, fruit and leaves and separate sections of fruits, flowers and kernels. Coloured line engraving.
  • A leaf of the teak plant (Tectona grandis). Pencil drawing.
  • Two flowering plants. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • A fruiting plant, possibly a Callicarpa species. Watercolour.
  • A plant (Clerodendrum species): flowering and leafy stem. Watercolour.
  • Hosea malabarica: branch with flowers and fruit, separate flowers and fruit and cross-section of fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • A species of the genus Lantana: flowering stem with separate flower. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • A plant (Verbena urtica folia): flowering stem with separate leaf and floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1775.
  • A plant (Verbena communis): flowering stem with separate floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1775.
  • A plant (Verbena americana): flowering stem with separate lower stem and floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1775.
  • Three flowering plants: a garden dahlia (Dahlia cultivar), a calamint (Calamintha coccinea) and a verbena (Verbena tweediana). Coloured engraving by J. & J. Parkin.
  • Fiddlewood (Citharexylum quadrangulare Jacq.): flowering stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Four British garden plants: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1835.
  • Three flowerheads from different cultivars of garden verbena (Verbena x hybrida) Coloured zincograph by C. Rosenberg, c. 1850, after himself.
  • Three flowers: a garden verbena (Verbena teucrioides), a mallow (Malva coccineum) and a salvia (Salvia patens). Coloured aquatint by A. Adlard, c. 1838.
  • Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Five British wild flowers, including broomrape (Orobanche caerulea), vervain (Verbena officinalis) and toothwort (Lathraea squamaria). Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.
  • Vitex agnus-castus (Chasteberry tree).