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Four British garden plants, including a rose and lupin: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
Date: 1836Reference: 27356i- Pictures
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Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum): leaves and fruits. Pen drawing, partially coloured.
Reference: 22367i- Digital Images
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Tomato root under the microscope
Odra Noel- Pictures
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Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
Date: 1834Reference: 27334i- Pictures
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Four poisonous plants: hemlock (Conium maculatum), henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), opium lettuce (Lactuca virosa) and autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale). Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone.
Date: 1855Reference: 28008i- Pictures
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Tobacco (Nicotiana sp.): flowering stem with separate leaf. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16758i- Pictures
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A plant (Solanum aethiopicum L.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1770]Reference: 17485i- Pictures
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A cudweed plant (Gnaphalium species), mandrake plant (Mandragora officinarum) and breadfruit tree (Artocarpus atilis). Coloured engraving, c. 1827.
Date: [1827]Reference: 27951i- Pictures
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Four examples of single flowers: a deadly nightshade, thorn apple, periwinkle and wallflower. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819.Date: 31 December 1802Reference: 24243i- Pictures
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Four Egyptian plants in a landscape, including purging cassia, French jujube or Chinese date, and a taro species. Line engraving, c. 1676.
Date: [1676]Reference: 20839i- Pictures
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Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16859i- Pictures
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Tobacco plants (Nicotiana rustica and N. paniculata): flowering and fruiting stem of both species with their respective floral segments.Engraving by J.Caldwall, c.1805, after P.Henderson.
Henderson, Peter, active 1799-1829.Date: 1 July 1805Reference: 18320i- Pictures
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Workers harvesting sago in a tropical wooded glade with a bilimbi tree, a sago palm, a durian tree and a pepper plant. Engraving, c. 1777.
Date: [1777-78]Reference: 26351i- Pictures
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Smoking tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16764i- Pictures
Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.): flowering stem and separate cluster of fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1770]Reference: 17484i- Pictures
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Five large cacti and a sweet potato plant (Ipomoea batatas) in a tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.
Date: [1671]Reference: 24651i- Books
Hallucinogenic plants of North America / by Jonathan Ott ; illustrated by Mary Jo Eloheimo.
Ott, JonathanDate: 1976- Pictures
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Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870.Date: 1861Reference: 24544i- Pictures
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A tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum), its flowers and seeds, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
Date: [c. 1840]Reference: 28060i- Digital Images
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Brugmansia suaveolens 'Pink Beauty'
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Brugmansia suaveolens'Pink Beauty'
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
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A Brazilian sassafras tree (Aniba species) and a Petunia plant in an exotic landscape with snakes, lizards and tribal people. Etching, c. 1671.
Date: [1671]Reference: 24657i- Archives and manuscripts
Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica
Holmes, Edward Morell, 1843-1930.Date: 1876-1930Reference: MSS.2867-2932, 7961 & WMS/Amer.145-148- Digital Images
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Physalis alkekengi L. Rosaceae Chinese lantern, Winter Cherry, Bladder Cherry. Distribution: C & S Europe, W. Asia to Japan. Culpeper, in his English Physitian of 1652 writes: Winter Cherry ... are of great use in physic ...’ and recommends them for almost all kidney and urinary problems. In particular he seems to advocate the use of green berries in beer, for preventing kidney stones lodging in the ureters. It is called ‘aikakengi’ in the College’s Pharmacopoeia Londinensis of 1618. Belonging to the family Solanaceae, all its parts are poisonous except the ripe fruit. The green fruit and the rest of the plant contain atropinic compounds and will produce a dry mouth, rapid heart beat, hallucinations, coma and death if enough is taken. As the atropine is only present in the unripe fruit eating one will make the mouth go dry (and it has the most unpleasant taste), but it will also relax the smooth muscle in the wall of the ureter which helps passage of ureteric stones. Culpeper’s observations on its usefulness are supported by more modern observations. When ripe, the orange fruit inside its skeletal outer ‘lantern’ is edible, free of atropine, and delicious. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Physalis alkekengi L. Rosaceae Chinese lantern, Winter Cherry, Bladder Cherry Distribution: C & S Europe, W. Asia to Japan Culpeper: In his English Physitian of 1652 writes: Winter Cherry ... are of great use in physic ...’ and recommends them for almost all kidney and urinary problems. In particular he seems to advocate the use of green berries in beer, for preventing kidney stones lodging in the ureters. It is called ‘aikakengi’ in the College’s Pharmacopoeia Londinensis of 1618. Belonging to the family Solanaceae, all its parts are poisonous except the ripe fruit. The green fruit and the rest of the plant contain atropinic compounds and will produce a dry mouth, rapid heart beat, hallucinations, coma and death if enough is taken. As the atropine is only present in the unripe fruit eating one will make the mouth go dry (and it has the most unpleasant taste), but it will also relax the smooth muscle in the wall of the ureter which helps passage of ureteric stones. Culpeper’s observations on its usefulness are supported by more modern observations. When ripe, the orange fruit inside its skeletal outer ‘lantern’ is edible, free of atropine, and delicious. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley