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  • Directions for bringing over seeds and plants, from the East Indies and other distant countries, in a state of vegetation: together with a catalogue of such foreign plants as are worthy of being encouraged in our American colonies, for the purposes of medicine, agriculture, and commerce. To which is added, the figure and botanical description of a new sensitive plant, called Dionoea muscipula: or, Venus's fly-trap / By John Ellis, F.R.S.
  • Horse chestnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum L.): seeds (conkers) and their shells, with a poem about them. Etching with drypoint by A. Taiée after himself, c.1875.
  • Rye (Secale species): plant stems with seedheads. Watercolour.
  • A stone fruit tree, possibly a plum (Prunus species): fruiting branch and seed. Watercolour.
  • Two plants, a fruiting clematis with separate seeds and a plant with blue fruits. Watercolour.
  • Tea plant (Camellia sinensis): flowering stem with sectioned leaf and many floral segments. Coloured engraving by J. Miller, c. 1771.
  • HDRA's heritage seed programme / Henry Doubleday Research Association.
  • Borneo camphor tree (Dryobalanops aromatica): flowers, leafy stem and sectioned seed. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • Men lie sleeping under a tree; one sows seeds; representing the biblical parable of the sower. Etching by F. Keller after J.F. Overbeck.
  • Men lie sleeping as a man sows seeds; representing the biblical parable of the sower. Etching.
  • Various leaf forms and flower parts. Watercolour by I. Sawkins.
  • Castor oil plant (Ricinus communis): flowering and fruiting stem, leaf and fruit sections. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.
  • Directions for bringing over seeds and plants, from the East Indies and other distant countries, in a state of vegetation: together with a catalogue of such foreign plants as are worthy of being encouraged in our American colonies, for the purposes of medicine, agriculture, and commerce. To which is added, the figure and botanical description of a new sensitive plant, called Dionoea muscipula: or, Venus's fly-trap / By John Ellis, F.R.S.
  • Sunflower & other seeds... : proteins punch / designed and produced by Compass Group UK and Ireland's Design Centre.
  • A man sows seeds; representing the parable of the sower. Etching.
  • A flowering tree branch with a separate germinating seed. Watercolour.
  • A man scatters seeds; representing the Biblical parable of the sower; here referring to the "ministry of the word", preaching. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • Christ tells an apostle how a mustard seed grows into a tree. Etching.
  • A plant, possibly an Euonymus species: fruiting branch. Watercolour.
  • Three fairies in a garden looking at the plants; representing botany. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman after R. Corbould.
  • Fifty-four flowers, fruit and floral segments of different forms. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.
  • Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): white flowers, seed capsule and seeds. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • Sunflower & other seeds... : proteins punch / designed and produced by Compass Group UK and Ireland's Design Centre.
  • Tea plant (Camellia sinensis): flowering stem with sectioned leaf and many floral segments. Coloured engraving by J. Miller, c. 1771.
  • Couch grass (Elymus repens): flower and seedheads with roots and floral segments. Chromolithograph, c. 1887, after W. Müller.
  • A fruiting tree branch with a small section enlarged and a fruit with some seeds extracted. Watercolour.
  • Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): white flowers, seed capsule and seeds. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • Elecampane plant (Inula helenium): flowering stem, leaf and floral segments. Chromolithograph, c. 1887, after W. Müller.
  • Six seeding plants, including dandelion, oak, sycamore and hazel, all illustrating different methods of seed dispersal. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • 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.