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A plant, possibly of the Primulaceae family: flowering stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 22959i- Pictures
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A plant (a species of Primulaceae): entire flowering plant with separate flower sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16680i- Digital Images
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Primula veris L. Primulaceae. Cowslip, Herba paralysis Distribution: W. Asia, Europe. Fuchs ((1542) quotes Dioscorides Pliny and Galen, with numerous uses, from bruises, toothache, as a hair dye, for oedema, inflamed eye, and mixed with honey, wine or vinegar for ulcer and wounds, for scorpion bites, and pain in the sides and chest, and more. Lobel (1576) calls them Primula veriflorae, Phlomides, Primula veris, Verbascula. Like other herbals of the 16th and 17th century, the woodcuts leave one in no doubt that Primula veris was being written about. However, other translators of Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959 with Goodyear's 1655 translation
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Primula veris L. Primulaceae Cowslip, Herba paralysis Distribution: W. Asia, Europe. Fuchs ((1542) quotes Dioscorides Pliny and Galen, with numerous uses, from bruises, toothache, as a hair dye, for oedema, inflamed eye, and mixed with honey, wine or vinegar for ulcer and wounds, for scorpion bites, and pain in the sides and chest, and more. Lobel (1576) calls them Primula veriflorae, Phlomides, Primula veris, Verbascula. Lyte (1578) calls them Cowslippe, Petie mulleyn, Verbasculum odoratum, Primula veris, Herbae paralysis and Artheticae. Along with cowslips and oxeslips, he says they are 'used dayly among other pot herbes, but in Physicke there is no great account of them. They are good for the head and synewes ...'. Like other herbals of the 16th and 17th century, the woodcuts leave one in no doubt that Primula veris was being written about. However, other translators of Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959 with Goodyear's 1655 translation
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Primroses (Primula species): leaves and flowers. Watercolour and pencil drawings.
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Various flowers, including gorse, primrose, violet and cowslip. Watercolour by G. E. L., 1859.
L., G. E.Date: 1859Reference: 22147i- Pictures
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A species of the genus Lysimachia: flowering stem with separate root and floral sections. Coloured etchings by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16842i- Pictures
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Eight flowering plants, possibly including species of Hosta, Primula, and a daylily. Watercolour, c. 1870.
Date: 1870Reference: 28626i- Pictures
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Soldanella alpina: entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16597i- Pictures
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Moneywort or creeping jenny (Lysimachia nummularia L.): flowering stem with root and separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16841i- Pictures
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An Auricula plant: two flowering stems, one in outline only. Etching, c. 1787.
Date: [1 July 1787]Reference: 24945i- Pictures
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Three flowering plants: glasswort (Salicornia), barilla (Salsola) and a Samolus species. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1826.
Date: [1827]Reference: 25507i- Pictures
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Primrose (Primula vulgaris): flowering stems and leaves. Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after F. E. Hulme.
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909.Date: [1877-1900]Reference: 24511i- Pictures
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Ten flowering plants, including an orchid and Chinese primrose (Primula sinensis). Coloured transfer lithograph, c. 1833.
Date: 1833Reference: 27289i- Pictures
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Two flowering plants: primroses (Primula species) and saxifrages (Saxifraga species). Coloured lithographs by E. Champin, c. 1850, after herself.
Champin, Elisa-Honorine, -1871.Date: 1850Reference: 27097i- Pictures
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Brookweed (Samolus valerandi L.): entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16847i- Pictures
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Rock-jasmine (Androsace sp.): entire flowering plant with separate single flower and corolla. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16769i- Pictures
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Wall rocket (Diplotaxis muralis) and bog pimpernel (Anagallis tenella): flowering and fruiting stems. Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after F. E. Hulme.
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909.Date: [1877-1900]Reference: 24512i- Pictures
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Poison primula (Primula obconica): flowering plant. Chromolithograph, c. 1897, after H. Moon.
Moon, Henry George, 1857-1905.Date: [1897]Reference: 25887i- Pictures
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Yellow loosetrife (Lysimachia vulgaris) and scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis): flowering stems. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
Naudin, Philibert, active 1870.Date: [1865]Reference: 24685i- Pictures
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Common or scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis f. caerulea (Schreber) Baumg.): flowering and fruiting stems with root and separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16846i- Pictures
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Seven British garden plants, including stinking Benjamin: flowering stems and some floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
Date: 1833Reference: 27424i- Pictures
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Three flowering plants: a pink (Dianthus species), a Potentilla and an Anagallis species. Coloured aquatint by D. Hayes, c. 1849.
Date: [1833-59]Reference: 26191i- Pictures
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Common or scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis L.): flowering and fruiting plant in earth mound. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16844i- Pictures
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Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
Date: 1837Reference: 27375i