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Lathyrus sativus
Date: 1913Reference: MS.2893Part of: Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica- Digital Images
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Lathyrus vernus (L.)Bernh. Papilionaceae previously Orobus vernus L. (Linnaeus, 1753) Spring vetchling. Distribution: Europe to Siberia. The seeds of several Lathyrus species are toxic, and when eaten cause a condition called lathyrism. The chemical diaminoproprionic acid in the seeds causes paralysis, spinal cord damage, aortic aneurysm, due to poisoning of mitochondria causing cell death. Occurs where food crops are contaminated by Lathyrus plants or where it is eaten as a 'famine food' when no other food is available. It is the Orobus sylvaticus purpureus vernus of Bauhin (1671) and Orobus sylvaticus angustifolius of Parkinson (1640) - who records that country folk had no uses for it. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Lathyrus vernus (L.)Bernh. Papilionaceae previously Orobus vernus L. (Linnaeus, 1753) Spring vetchling. Distribution: Europe to Siberia. The seeds of several Lathyrus species are toxic, and when eaten cause a condition called lathyrism. The chemical diaminoproprionic acid in the seeds causes paralysis, spinal cord damage, aortic aneurysm, due to poisoning of mitochondria causing cell death. Occurs where food crops are contaminated by Lathyrus plants or where it is eaten as a 'famine food' when no other food is available. It is the Orobus sylvaticus purpureus vernus of Bauhin (1671) and Orobus sylvaticus angustifolius of Parkinson (1640) - who records that country folk had no uses for it. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
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Vetchling (Lathyrus species): flowering and fruiting stems. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
Bradbury, Henry, 1831-1860.Date: [c. 1867]Reference: 23666i- Pictures
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A bunch of sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus). Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after Guenébeaud.
Guenébeaud.Date: 1850Reference: 27069i- Pictures
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A bunch of flowering sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus var.). Chromolithograph, c. 1878, after H. Moon.
Moon, Henry George, 1857-1905.Date: 12 January 1878Reference: 28329i- Pictures
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An 'everlasting' pea plant (Lathyrus latifolius): flowers and leaf. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909.Date: [1879-1887]Reference: 24348i- Pictures
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Vetchling (Lathyrus inconspicuus): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1770]Reference: 17728i- Pictures
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Tangier pea (Lathyrus tingitanus L.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate mature fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1770]Reference: 17621i- Pictures
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Bird's foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) and common vetch (Lathyrus pratensis): entire flowering plants. Coloured etching by A. Duménil, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
Naudin, Philibert, active 1870.Date: [1865]Reference: 24682i- Ephemera
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Caper spurge (Euphorbia lathyrus. Family: Euphorbiaceae) : Corangil tablets.
Date: [1966]- Pictures
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Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
Date: 1836Reference: 27350i- Pictures
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Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870.Date: 1861Reference: 24540i- Archives and manuscripts
Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica
Holmes, Edward Morell, 1843-1930.Date: 1876-1930Reference: MSS.2867-2932, 7961 & WMS/Amer.145-148