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Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)
Sue Snell- Pictures
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Strophanthus dichotomus Decne.: flowering branch with separate numbered sections of flower, follicle and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
Hoola, Berthe van Nooten.Date: [1885]Reference: 16405i- Pictures
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Buttercup (Ranunculus grandiflorus): flowering stem and flowers. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.
Aubriet, Claude, 1665-1742.Date: [1718]Reference: 20855i- Pictures
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Lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria species): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16586i- Pictures
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Lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis L.): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16581i- Pictures
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Two entire flowering plants, a yellow crocus (Crocus species) and a herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia). Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.
Date: 1853 [1854]Reference: 23767i- Pictures
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Hellebore (Helleborus atrorubens): fruiting stem with roots and separate flowering stem. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.
Schütz, Johann.Date: [1802/12]Reference: 18447i- Books
The invisible harvest : a microhistory of heretical herbs / written and illustrated by Bethany van Rijswijk.
Rijswijk, Bethany vanDate: [2023]- Digital Images
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Ornithogalum umbellatum L. Hyacinthaceae Star of Bethlehem, Grass lily. Distribution: Central Europe, SW Asia, NW Africa. All parts are poisonous, especially the bulbs. The toxin is a cardiac glycoside with effects similar to digoxin, vomiting, cardiac irregularities and death in humans and livestock. Only used for decoration by Native Americans (it is a non-native plant that has escaped into the wild from cultivation) and called Sleepydick (Moerman, 1998). One of its toxins is Convallotoxin, also present in Lily of the Valley, Convallaria majalis. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
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Mushrooms and toadstools : how to distinguish easily the differences between edible and poisonous fungi; with figures of twenty-nine edible and thirty-one poisonous species / [Worthington George Smith].
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: 1876- Pictures
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Foxglove (Digitalis fuscescens): two sections of the flowering stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.
Schütz, Johann.Date: [1802/12]Reference: 18449i- Pictures
People of Borneo. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1873, after F. Regamey after a photograph by August Sachtler.
Sachtler, August (Photographer), active 1873.Date: 4 January 1873Reference: 44142i- Pictures
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Goat's-thorn (Astragalus trimestris): entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1772]Reference: 17805i- Digital Images
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Podophyllum hexandrum (Indian mandrake)
Rowan McOnegal- Pictures
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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- 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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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- Books
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Joh. Jacobi Wepferi ... Historia cicutæ aquaticæ, : quâ non solùm plantæ hujus venenatæ structura naturalis, vires & operationes deleteriæ in hominibus ac brutis adcuratè describuntur, sciteque explicantur ... Adjectæ sunt ad calcem dissertationes de thee helvetico ac cymbalaria. / Curante Theodoro Zvingero.
Wepfer, Johann Jakob, 1620-1695.Date: 1716- 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- Ephemera
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Spurge laurel (daphne laureola. Family: Thymelaeaceae) : Myolgin tablets.
Date: [between 1960 and 1969?]- 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