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Bee Larkspur (Delphinium sp. var.): flowering stem with separate labelled floral segments. Engraving by J. Caldwall, c.1805, after P. Henderson.
Henderson, Peter, active 1799-1829.Date: 1 January 1805Reference: 18315i- Digital Images
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Podophyllum hexandrum (Indian mandrake)
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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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Two flowering plants: scarlet phelypaea (Phelypaea coccinea) and water hemlock (Oenanthe crocata). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1824.
Date: [1827]Reference: 25513i- Pictures
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Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum): leaves and fruits. Pen drawing, partially coloured.
Reference: 22367i- Pictures
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Aconite or monkshood (Aconitum napellus L.): flowering stem with separate labelled floral segments. Engraving by J.Caldwall, c.1804, after P. Henderson.
Henderson, Peter, active 1799-1829.Date: December 1804Reference: 18308i- Pictures
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A tropical aroid (Philodendron simsii): spadix, spathe and leaf bases. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after C. Rosenberg.
Rosenberg, C. T., active approximately 1850.Date: [1850-51]Reference: 26364i- Pictures
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Two flowering plants: thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) on the left and henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) on the right. Colour process print, 1924.
Date: 12 April 1924Reference: 25610i- Pictures
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Sarawak: a Kenyah worker collecting the poison from an upas tree trunk. Photograph.
Reference: 30402i- Pictures
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People reaching for alcoholic drink falling from a pile of barrels of liquor likened to the upas-tree; skeletons litter the ground. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1842]Reference: 26469i- 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
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Three liliaceous flowering plants, including lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) and whorled Solomon's seal (Polygonatum verticillatum). Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.
Date: 1853 [1854]Reference: 23773i- Pictures
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Green hellebore (Helleborus viridis L.): leaf, inflorescence, flower, root and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
Date: [1778]Reference: 17338i- Pictures
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Foxglove (Digitalis sp.): flowering stem with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16970i- Pictures
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Foxglove (Digitalis sp.): infloresence and separate leafy stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16967i- Digital Images
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Podophyllum peltatum (American mandrake). Also known as 'May apple'.
Sue Snell- Pictures
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The male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas): fronds and part of rhizome. Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.
Date: 1853 [1854]Reference: 23766i- Pictures
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Stinking hellebore (Helleborus foetidus): flowering stem. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
Robert, Nicolas, 1614-1685.Date: [c. 1660]Reference: 24911i- 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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Butterfly iris (Moraea sp.): entire flowering plant with separate fruiting stem and sections of leaf and bulb. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 17992i- Pictures
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Lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis): flowering stem with leaves and separate roots. Partially coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.
Gower, Charlotte.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24383i- Pictures
Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1903.
Date: 1903Reference: 21104i- Pictures
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Four flowering and fruiting plants: black bryony, herb Paris, common asparagus and butchers broom. Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
W. Dickes & Co.Date: [1855]Reference: 24823i- Pictures
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A Christmas rose or black hellebore (Helleborus niger): flowering stem. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
Robert, Nicolas, 1614-1685.Date: [c. 1660]Reference: 24910i- Digital Images
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Fatsia japonica (Thunb.) Decne. & Planch. Araliaceae False castor oil plant. Distribution: Japan, South Korea. Not even in the same family as the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis. An ornamental plant, Fatsia from the Japanese word for 'eight' hachi referring to the eight-lobed leaf. The sap can cause dermatitis. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley