Baldmoney (Meum athamanticum Jacq.): flowering stem with separate rootstock, flower and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.

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[1778]
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17398i
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Baldmoney (Meum athamanticum Jacq.): flowering stem with separate rootstock, flower and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Baldmoney is also known as spignel or meu

Roots of baldmoney were eaten as a vegetable and condiment and the leaves used as a diuretic

Publication/Creation

[Romae (Rome)] : [Bouchard et Gravier], [1778]

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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 37.1 x 22.8 cm

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Lettering

Meum foliis Anethi. C.B.Pin.148. Foeniculum alpinum perenne. I.R.H.312. Ital. Meo barbuto. Gall. Le Meum

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Wellcome Collection 17398i

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