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  • Butcher's broom (Rucus aculeatus L.): entire flowering plant with separate berry and immature fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Smoking tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Crosswort (Galium cruciata (L.) Scop.): flowering stems arising from earth mound with separate flower sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Pride-of-India, queen flower or pyinma (Lagerstroemia speciosa (L.) Pers.): branch with leaves and flowers.
  • China rose or Shoe flower (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.): flowering shoot. Coloured line engraving.
  • Common sawwort (Serratula tinctoria): two flowering stems and two separate leaves of different forms. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
  • Mandrake roots in the form of human figures, both naked and clothed; the mandrake plant itself (Mandragora officinarum L.); and a root of ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.). Engraving.
  • Betony (Stachys officinalis (L.) Trev.): flowering stem with separate leaves, floral segments and sections of root and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving after T. Sheldrake, c.1759.
  • Clove tree (Syzygium aromaticum): flowering stem and separate fruit. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.
  • Tumeric (Curcuma longa L.): rhizome with flowering stem and separate leaf and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • A plant (Atalantia spinosa): branch with flowers and fruit, cross-section of fruit, seed and style.
  • Bilberry plant (Vaccinium myrtillus L.): flowering and fruiting stems with separate floral segments and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H.Hemerich, c.1759, after T.Sheldrake.
  • Cornflower or bachelor's-buttons (Centaurea cyanus L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H.Hemerich, c.1759, after T.Sheldrake.
  • Yellow horned poppy (Glaucium flavum Crantz.): entire flowering and fruiting plant with seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • Monkshood (Aconitum napellus): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Celosia trigyna L.: two sections of the flowering stem with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Indian Copal (Vateria indica L.): branch with flowers, leaves and fruit and dissected fruit showing seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Aconite or monkshood (Aconitum napellus L.): flowering stem with separate labelled floral segments. Engraving by J.Caldwall, c.1804, after P. Henderson.
  • Crosswort or bedstraw (Galium cruciata): four flowering stems. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
  • Cittwodi, Hawar or Manchingi (Dolichandrone falcata Seem.): branch with flower and pods, and separate sectioned pods and seeds. Coloured line engraving.
  • Two roundels: above, a man supported by his wife and children prays before an altar of Aesculapius; below, a garland of medicinal plants, and angels representing pharmacy and botany. Coloured engraving by P. Lenormand, ca. 1830, partly after N. Guérin.
  • Greater celandine (Chelidonium majus): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by A. Duménil, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Double and single paeony (Paeonia sp.): flowering stem of the double peony with a separate single paeony flower and floral segments. Engraving by Hopwood, c.1802, after P.Henderson.
  • English ivy (Hedera helix): stem with flowers, fruit and leaves. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
  • Gromwell (Lithospermum officinale L.): entire flowering plant with separate flower, fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Early purple orchid (Orchis mascula): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1904.
  • Thorn-apple or Jamestown weed (Datura stramonium): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by A. Duménil, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Coltsfoot flower and leaf (Tussilago farfara) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
  • Wood germander or wood sage (Teucrium scorodonia L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1775.
  • Common box tree (Buxus sempervirens L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H. Hemerich, c.1759, after T. Sheldrake.