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  • Six cut Ranunculus flowers: double-flowered varieties with leaves. Watercolour by Mrs. Montgomery.
  • Four plants, including a fritillary (Fritillaria) and a wood buttercup (Ranunculus nemorosus): flowering stems. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • Buttercup (Ranunculus sp.): flowering and stoloniferous stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • A plant (Ranunculus species): flowering plant in a pot. Woodcut.
  • Celandine (Ranunculus ficaria): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Three plants, including a cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) and an iris: flowering stems with two grasshoppers. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
  • 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.
  • Buttercup (Ranunculus grandiflorus): flowering stem and flowers. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.
  • Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Two types of buttercup (Ranunculus species): entire flowering plants. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • A buttercup (Ranunculus arvensis) with an associated insect and its abdominal segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • A type of buttercup (Ranunculus sceleratus): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by A. Duménil, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Four poisonous plants: crowfoot (Ranunculus alpestris), fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria), foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and hellebore (Helleborus niger) Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone.
  • Ivy-leaved buttercup (Ranunculus hederaceus): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1809.