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A dragonfly on a lotus flower (Nelumbo species) held above the water. Watercolour.

Passion flower (Passiflora alata): flowering stem. Watercolour, ca. 1850 (?).

Two flowering plants. Watercolour, c. 1870.

Date: 1870

A houseleek (Sempervivum arachnoideum): flowering plant. Coloured engraving, c. 1788.

Curtis, William, 1746-1799.

Date: 1788

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey: Miss North's museum. Wood engraving by Hill.

An iris; flowers and birds; two ladies, one with a baby. Ink drawings.

A course of fifteen lectures on medical botany, denominated Thomson's new theory of medical practice : in which the various theories that have preceded it are reviewed and compared : delivered in Cincinnati, Ohio

Robinson, Samuel.

Date: 1830

The British flora medica : or, History of the medicinal plants of Great Britain

Barton, Benjamin Herbert, active 1835.

Date: 1845

A species of Sapotaceae: branch with flowers and fruit, separate flower and sections of fruit and seeds. Coloured line engraving.

Reede tot Drakestein, Hendrik van, 1637?-1691.

Date: [1683]

Diccionario Botanico Latino-Guarani & Guarani-Latino con un glosario de vocablos y elementos de la nomenclatura botanica

Bertoni, Moisés Santiago, 1857-1929.

Date: 1940

Kwei plant (Osmanthus fragrans): flowering stem with floral segments. Coloured etching by J. Miller, c. 1771.

Miller, John, 1715-1790?

Date: 1771

A fruiting plant of the Scrophulariaceae family: stem in two sections. Watercolour.

A flowering iris. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after Guenébeaud.

Date: 1850

Principles of scientific botany, or, Botany as an inductive science

Lankester, E. Ray Sir, 1847-1929.

Date: 1849

A bunch of sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus). Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after Guenébeaud.

Date: 1850

Banana (Musa coccinea Andr.): fruiting shoot with leaf and numbered sections of flowers. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Hoola, Berthe van Nooten.

Date: [1885]

Leaves of birch (Betula species). Pen drawing with pencil.

Jambolan or Java plum (Eugenia jambolana Lam.): fruiting branch with numbered figures of inflorescence and sectioned flower, fruit and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Hoola, Berthe van Nooten.

Date: [1885]

Elementi di botanica

Pollini, Ciro, 1782-1833.

Date: 1810-1811

A plant (Lycium aethiopicum): flowering stem and floral segments. Watercolour by G. D. Ehret, 1736.

Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770.

Date: [spring 1736]

Woody nightshade or bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara): flowering and fruiting stem. Watercolour.

Apple (Malus species): fruiting branch with separate fruit. Colour aquatint by B. Rosaspina after D. del Pino, 1825.

Del Pino, Domenico, active 1820.

Date: [1817]

Boerhavia hirsuta L.: flowering and fruiting stem with root and separate leaf. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.

Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.

Date: [1770]

Jak tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus) with fruit in the Society Islands. Pen drawing.

A large kokerite palm (Maximiliana maripa) and the artist drawing it, in a tropical landscape. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant, c. 1855.

Verschaffelt, Ambroise.

Date: [1854-63]

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