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- Archives and manuscripts
Alpine plants
Date: 1967-1981Reference: PP/AEM/A.319-320Part of: Mourant, Arthur Ernest (1904-1994)- Archives and manuscripts
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Watson & Cheese Andes Project
Date: 1971Reference: PP/AEM/A.320Part of: Mourant, Arthur Ernest (1904-1994)- Books
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Plant life in Alpine Switzerland : being an account in simple language of the natural history of Alpine plants / by E.A. Newell Arber ... Illustrated by 48 plates of photographs from nature, and 30 figures in the text.
Arber, E. A. Newell (Edward Alexander Newell), 1870-1918.Date: 1910- Books
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Alpine flowers for gardens : rock, wall, marsh plants, and mountain shrubs / by W. Robinson.
Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935.Date: 1903- Digital Images
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Prostanthera ovalifolia R.Br. Lamiaceae Alpine anise bush, Oval leaf Mintbush, Purple mintbush. Woody shrub. Distribution: Australia. Minty flavoured leaves used in jams and jellies. Various essential oils are produced from commercially grown P. ovalifolia (cis-dihydroagarofuran, kessane, 1,8-cineole which is also known as eucalyptol, p-cymene,) and P. cuneata also contains eucalyptol. Concentrations of essential oils in the plants vary according to the clonal variety, growing conditions and time of year. Aboriginal peoples used Prostanthera leaves in medicinal ointments and washes, but one species, P. striatiflora, was used to poison waterholes to kill visiting emu (Hegarty, 2001). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
'Plant Portraits: Eryngium glaciale Boiss' by Guido Pontecorvo in Quarterly Bulletin of Alpine Garden Society,50, pp56-57
Date: 1981Reference: UGC 198/7/2/115Part of: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Pictures
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Four British garden plants, including a glory pea: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
Date: 1837Reference: 27397i- Digital Images
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Ranunculus ficaria 'Brazen Hussy'
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Acinos alpinus (L.) Moench. Lamiaceae. Rock thyme. Small herbaceous perennial. Distribution: C. and S. Europe. This is Mountain wild Basill, Clinopodium alpinum, of Parkinson (1640), the Teucrium Alpinum and Clinopodium Alpinum hirsutum of Bauhin. Then as now, when it has the synonyms Thymus alpinus, Satureja alpina and Calamintha alpina, its nomenclature has been confused. It is unlikely to be the Acinos or Clinopodium of Theophrastus or Disocorides. Dioscorides gives opposing medicinal uses to the plants he knows by these two names, and Parkinson (1640) makes no judgement as to its uses. Reportedly drunk as a tea in Greece, but evidence for it being used historically for fevers is lacking. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley