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Four British wild flowers, including marsh and purple helleborines (Epipactis species). Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: [1846]Reference: 24646i- Pictures
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Five British wild flowers, including coral-root (Dentaria bulbifera), lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis) and rock cress (Arabis species). Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: [1846]Reference: 24626i- Books
Mountain wild flowers of America : a simple and popular guide to the names and descriptions of the flowers that bloom above the clouds / by Julia W. Henshaw.
Henshaw, Julia W. (Julia Wilmotte Henderson)Date: 1906- Pictures
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Four British wild flowers, including the burnet rose (Rosa spinosissima), eglantine rose (Rosa eglanteria) and dog rose (Rosa canina). Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, after H. Humphreys.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: [1856]Reference: 24639i- Pictures
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Four British wild flowers and fruit, including red currant (Ribes rubrum), black currant (Ribes nigrum) and gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa). Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, after H. Humphreys.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: [1856]Reference: 24640i- Pictures
A statue holding a cornucopia of wild flowers on a green ground, advertising Zeller's heart and nerve drops (medicine). Colour lithograph, 1959.
Date: [1959]Reference: 659495i- Pictures
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Five British wild flowers, including broomrape (Orobanche caerulea), vervain (Verbena officinalis) and toothwort (Lathraea squamaria). Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: [1846]Reference: 24644i- Books
A new and easy method of studying British wild flowers by natural analysis : being a complete series of illustrations of their natural orders and genera analytically arranged / by Frederick A. Messer.
Messer, Frederick A.Date: 1880- Pictures
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Eight British wild flowers, including teasel (Dipsacus sativa), devil's bit scabious (Succisa pratensis) and sheep's bit scabious (Jasione montana). Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, after H. Humphreys.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: [1856]Reference: 24643i- Books
A jar of wild flowers : essays in celebration of John Berger / edited by Yasmin Gunaratnam with Amarjit Chandan.
Date: 2016- Books
English names of wild flowers : a list recommended by the Botanical Society of the British Isles / John G. Dony, Franklyn Perring, Catherine M. Rob.
Dony, John G.Date: 1974- Books
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Wanderings among the wild flowers : how to see and how to gather them with two chapters on the economical and medicinal uses of our native plants / by Spencer Thomson.
Thomson, Spencer, 1817-1886.Date: 1856- Books
British wild flowers / illustrated by John E. Sowerby ... ; described with an introduction and a key to the natural orders, by C. Pierpoint Johnson.
Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870.Date: 1860- Books
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Nature's garden : an aid to knowledge of our wild flowers and their insect visitors / Neltje Blanchan ; with colored plates and many other illustrations photographed directly from nature by Henry Troth and A.R. Dugmore.
Blanchan, Neltje, 1865-1918.Date: 1901- Pictures
A big red heart on a black ground, with wild flowers spelling the word "ruhig" (peaceful); advertising Zeller's heart and nerve drops (medicine). Colour lithograph,1964/1968 (?).
Date: [between 1964 and 1968?]Reference: 659454i- Books
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Dictionary of the names of British plants : intended for the use of amateurs and beginners, as a help to the knowledge of the meaning and pronunciation of the scientific names of British wild flowers / by Henry Purefoy Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald, Henry Purefoy.Date: [1885]- Pictures
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Six vignettes (with capital letters T or O): an open book with closed books (T); bunch of wild flowers (O); a seated Zouave holding a gun (O); two soldiers (T); a messenger on horseback (T); a boy asleep on the grass (T). Wood engraving by H. Linton.
Reference: 578901i- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Guy's tower complex, flowers in the back garden (June 1994).
Date: 02/06/1994-04/06/1994Reference: PP/AMI/B/547Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive- Pictures
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A griffin facing left surrounded by various flowers, fruits and insects. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.Date: [1674]Reference: 24378i- Digital Images
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Adonis vernalis L. Ranunculaceae. Pheasant's eye, the golden flowered spring (or vernal) Adonis, is named in memory of Adonis, the Greek god of plants, who disappeared into the earth in the winter and reappeared in the spring. The flowers were said to have sprung from his blood when he was gored to death by a wild boar, but this plant must have been the blood red Adonis aestivalis, the summer Adonis. Distribution: Eurasia to Spain and Sweden. Gerard (1633) recommends it for renal stone and intestinal colic. Lewis & Elvin Lewis (2003) note it is poisonous, containing cardiac glycosides (adonitoxin, cymarin, K-strophanthin) and flavonoids. The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)) bans its use for ingestion 'no dose permitted' but allow it to be prescribed by a herbal practitioner on a one-to-one consultation. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss sketchbook: Dettol, flowers, scenery around Lincoln's Inn Fields, Garden frogs and other places of interest Audrey visited (June-July 1996).
Date: 06/06/1996-07/07/1996Reference: PP/AMI/B/718Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive- Books
Was blüht denn da? : Der Fotoband / Dietmar Aichele.
Aichele, Dietmar, 1928-Date: 1994- Pictures
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Wild or wood garlic (Allium ursinum): flower and leaves. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24396i- Pictures
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Wild tulip (Tulipa sylvestris): flowering plant. Watercolour, 1906.
Date: 1906Reference: 21117i- Ephemera
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When pollen's in bloom... : Rynacrom : disodium cromoglycate for hay fever.
Date: [approximately 1971]