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  • A crocus (Crocus stellaris): entire flowering plant and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1812.
  • Various leaf forms, leaf venation, bud arrangements and woody stems. Watercolour by I. Sawkins.
  • Cluster of fruit of a date palm (Phoenix dactylifera). Colour aquatint by G. Carocci, 1838, after I. Palmerini, 1837.
  • A fern, a moss, a fungus and an alga: all with anatomical details. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.
  • Pollinia (clumps of pollen) of the butterfly habenaria orchid (Habenaria bifolia) on a single stamen. Watercolour, 1892.
  • Banana plant (Musa species): flowering and fruiting plant with stolons and separate floral segments and sectioned fruit, also a description of the plant's growth, anatomical labels and a scale bar. Etching by G. D. Ehret, c. 1742, after himself.
  • Giant water lily (Victoria amazonica): twenty one different anatomical segments of the plant. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1845, after himself.
  • Two examples of flowering plant stems: a clary (Salvia sclarea) and lime (Tilia species). Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
  • Microscope drawings of plant cells in glass tubes. Coloured lithograph by C. Varley, c.1834.
  • 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.
  • Three different flowers and two fruit with anatomical details. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.
  • Ten different forms of plant stem and two anatomical sections. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.
  • Four plants, all with different forms of tendrils or thorns. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • The dissected flowers of five plants: a grass, rye, wheat, vernal grass and chamomile. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • Sections of wood from the stem of a date palm (Phoenix dactylifera). Coloured aquatint by G. Carocci, 1839, after D. del Rè, 1833.
  • Dutch crocus (Crocus vernus): four diagrams of a whole and sectioned flowering plant. Partially coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
  • Trunk and roots of a pine tree cut to show growth rings; microscopic views of wood cells in longitudinal and transverse section and of a root tip. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • Various leaf forms and flower parts. Watercolour by I. Sawkins.
  • Five examples of different plant stems: a crow-foot, pilewort, onion, cuckoo flower and sheep's fescue plant. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
  • Microscope drawings of plant anatomy with cells and tissues of stonewort (Chara and Nitella species). Lithograph after C. Varley, c.1834.
  • Three mosses (Neckera species) with anatomical detail and five carrion eater beetles (Necydalis species). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1818.
  • Fifteen different forms of plant root and two anatomical sections. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.
  • Two examples of different root systems: a denticulate primrose rootstock and a creeping couch grass root. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
  • Various leaf forms, leaf arrangements and bulbs. Watercolour by I. Sawkins.
  • Microscope drawings of plant anatomy with cells and growing points. Lithograph after C. Varley, c.1834.
  • Transverse sections of the wood and stem anatomy of sugar cane, common cane, hazel, Althaea frutex, lime and bamboo.
  • Four figures showing pericarp and seeds in fruits of an apple and a milkweed plant (Asclepias syriaca). Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
  • Fourteen different forms of plant stem. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.
  • Various stages in the formation of the fruit of different flowers. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
  • Various stem forms, including bulbs and roots. Watercolour by I. Sawkins.