315 results
- Pictures
- Online
Three plants, one of the Compositae family: flowering stems with pink and yellow flowers. Watercolour.
Reference: 23418i- Pictures
- Online
Two plants of the Compositae family: a flowering thistle (left) and yellow chrysanthemum (right). Watercolour.
Reference: 23600i- Pictures
A fruiting plant, possibly of the Compositae family, with an enlarged tufted seed and bee. Watercolour.
Reference: 23242i- Pictures
- Online
Three flowers: a carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus) and two large Compositae species. Coloured aquatint by A. Adlard, c. 1838.
Date: [1833-59]Reference: 26200i- Books
Contributions to the flora of South America : studies on Andean Compositae. I, Studies in South American plants. II / [José Cuatrecasas].
Cuatrecasas, José.Date: 1950- Books
- Online
Precationes aliquot ministrorum verbi ex sacris scripturis compositae
Arctander, Niels Lauridsen 1561-1616Date: 1599- Books
- Online
Commodiani Instructiones aduersus gentium deos. Pro Christiana disciplina. Tempopre Siluestri p.r. sub Constantino caes. compositae
CommodianusDate: 1650- Books
Institutiones medicae, ad hypothesin de circulari sanguinis motu compositae. Subjunguntur ejusdem transsumpta medica, quibus continentur medicinae fundamenta / [Albert Kyper].
Kyper, Albert, -1655.Date: 1654- Digital Images
- Online
Chamaemelum nobile (L.) All. Asteraceae. English, Roman or garden chamomile Distribution: Europe, Mediterranean. Culpeper (1650): “... assuage swellings, inflammations of the bowels, dissolve wind, are profitable given in clysters or drink, to such as are troubled with colic or [renal] stone.” The leaves are pleasantly fragrant, hence its use as a lawn plant, but also in aromatherapy. A ‘tea’ made from the flowers is apparently used to lighten hair colour. Chamomile contains sesquiterpene lactones, and these are known to possess allergenic properties. Hypersensitivity reactions have been reported in this and other members of the Compositae (Asteraceae) and cross sensitivity reactions may occur (Medicines Control Agency, 2002). Analgesic, and used for cramps and spasms (Quincy, 1718). Chamomile tea is used to help sleep, but may cause uterine contractions so avoid in pregnancy (US National Institutes of Health advice). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
- Online
Repertorium remediorum indigenorum exoticis in medicina substituendorum; sive, Responsum ad problemata: Quaenam dantur substantiae indigenae simplices vel compositae quae in curatione morborum exoticis medicamentis prospere substitui possunt? ... cui palmam adjudicavit Societas Medicorum Burdigalensis in sessione sua 30 Augusti 1809 / [P.E. Wauters].
Wauters, P. E. (Pierre Englebert), 1745-1840Date: 1810- Books
- Online
Medicinae tam simplices quam compositae, ad omnes ferme corporis humani praeter naturam affectus, ex Hippocrate, Galeno, Avicenna, Aegineta, et aliis. Cum Arnoldi Catalani, de conferentibus et nocentibus membris principalibus humani corporis, tractatus appendice. Accessit [Zootropheion] sive leporarium, animalium quadrupedarum et avium naturas ac proprietates continens. Eodem autore. Una cum Constantini Africani eiusdem argumenti libello et Oppiani de piscibus tractatus, scholiis Georgii Pictorii illustrato.
Pictorius, Georg, approximately 1500-1569.Date: 1560- Books
- Online
Medicinae tam simplices quam compositae, ad omnes ferme corporis humani praeter naturam affectus / ex Hippocrate, Galeno, Avicenna, Aegineta, et al.iis ... Cum Arnoldi Catalani, de conferentibus et nocentibus membris principalibus humani corporis, tractatus appendice ... Accessit [Zootropheion] sive leporarium, animalium quadrupedarum et avium naturas ac proprietates continens. Eodem autore. Una cum Constantini Africani ejusdem argumenti libello et Oppiani de piscibus tractatus, scholiis Georgii Pictorii illustrato.
Pictorius, Georg, approximately 1500-1569.Date: 1560- Pictures
A cudweed plant (Gnaphalium uliginosum): two flowering stems. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
Bradbury, Henry, 1831-1860.Date: [c. 1867]Reference: 23681i- Books
Medicinae ta[m] simplices quam compositae, ad omnes ferme corporis humani praeter naturam affectus, : ex Hippocrate, Galeno, Avicenna, Aegineta, & alijs: per Georgium Pictorium ... ordine sic alphabetico in unum conscriptae, ut vel citra pulverem, exin quisque id quod concupiverit statim consequatur. Cum Arnoldi Catalani, De conferentibus & nocentibus membris principalibus humani corporis, tractatus ... Accessit Zootropheion; sive, Leporarium, animalium quadrup. & avium naturas ac proprietates continens: eodem autore. Una cum Constantini Africani ejusdem argumenti libello: & Oppiani De piscibus tractatu, scholiis Georgii Pictorii illustrato.
Pictorius, Georg, approximately 1500-1569.Date: [1560]- Books
- Online
[Composita verborum (Comm: Johannes Synthen)]
John, of Garland approximately 1195-1272Date: 1483- Books
- Online
[Composita verborum (Comm: Johannes Synthen)]
John, of Garland approximately 1195-1272Date: 1485- Books
- Online
Dissertatio botanica de Anandria ... / Curiosis modeste sistit ... Erland Zach. Tursén.
Tursén, Erland Zacharias, 1722-1777.Date: [1745?]- Pictures
- Online
A plant, possibly cudweed (Gnaphalium species): flowering stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 22420i- Pictures
- Online
A plant (Chrysocoma procumbens): entire flowering plant. Watercolour.
Reference: 22412i- Pictures
- Online
A plant (Cacalia sonchifolia): flowering stem and root. Watercolour.
Reference: 22465i- Pictures
- Online
A plant, possibly cudweed (Gnaphalium): entire flowering plant. Watercolour.
Reference: 22409i- Pictures
- Online
Common sawwort (Serratula tinctoria): two flowering stems and two separate leaves of different forms. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
Bradbury, Henry, 1831-1860.Date: [c. 1867]Reference: 23682i- Pictures
- Online
Elecampane plant (Inula helenium): flowering stem, leaf and floral segments. Chromolithograph, c. 1887, after W. Müller.
Müller, Walther.Date: 1887Reference: 24532i- Books
- Online
Pharmacopaia medico-chymica. Sive thesaurus pharmacologicus. Quo composita quaeque celebriora.
Schröder, Johann, 1600-1664.Date: 1655- Books
- Online
Pharmacopeia medico-chymica. Sive thesaurus pharmacologicus: quo composita quaeque celebriora.
Schröder, Johann, 1600-1664.Date: 1665