59 results filtered with: Grasses
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The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan (excluding Bambuseae) / foreword by George Taylor.
Bor, N. L. (Norman Loftus)Date: 1960- Pictures
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Meadow foxtail grass (Alopecurus pratensis): seedhead, leafy stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1805.
Date: [1805]Reference: 24247i- Pictures
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Cock's-foot grass (Dactylis glomerata): flowering stem, leaves, roots and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1796.
Sowerby, James, 1757-1822.Date: 1 July 1796Reference: 24966i- Pictures
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Alpine rice grass (Ehrharta colensoi Hook f.): plant with floral segments. Lithograph, c. 1880, after J. Buchanan.
Buchanan, John, -1898.Date: [1880]Reference: 20512i- Pictures
The boxed initials of three of the Passe family and two plants: a Paspalum grass and Passerina species. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1821.
Date: [1821]Reference: 25516i- Pictures
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Large brown fruits, similar to Japanese persimmon fruits, and two grass seedheads. Watercolour.
Reference: 23396i- Pictures
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Rye (Secale species): plant stems with seedheads. Watercolour.
Reference: 23633i- Pictures
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Four seedheads of different grasses (Gramineae species): Cynosorus crocanus, buntee?, Paspalum kora and Panicum miliaceum or common millet. Coloured aquatint by W. Hooker after J. Forbes, 1780.
Forbes, James, 1749-1819.Date: [1st June 1813]Reference: 20072i- Pictures
Wheat (Triticum aestivum): two heads of grain, and a lentil plant. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.
Burnett, M. A., active 1850.Date: [1842]Reference: 23825i- Pictures
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Crested hair grass (Koeleria cristata) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
Date: 1 May 1831Reference: 24202i- Books
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Practical observations on the culture of lucerne, turnips, burnet, timothy grass, and fowl meadow grass, communicated by letters to Dr. Templeman, secretary of the Society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce. To which is added, an appendix, containing comparative estimates of the expence and profit in drill and broadcast husbandry, in different parts of England, and in Ireland. And An Account of some new, and improved Instruments in Husbandry, with the Prices annexed to most of them.
Date: [1766]- Pictures
Eight French wild plants, including saffron crocus, barley, pine species, juniper and bladder wrack. Chromolithograph, c. 1915.
Date: [c. 1915]Reference: 25323i- Pictures
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Quaking grass (Briza minor) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
Date: 1 April 1831Reference: 24198i- Pictures
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A grasshopper on a grass plant stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 23628i- Pictures
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Common meadow grass (Poa pratensis): seedhead and leafy stems. Coloured etching, c. 1805.
Date: [1805]Reference: 24248i- Books
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The flowering plants, grasses, sedges, and ferns of Great Britain : and their allies the club mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails / by Anne Pratt.
Pratt, Anne, 1806-1893.Date: [1873]- Pictures
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Two grass plants, one possibly a bamboo. Watercolour.
Reference: 22838i- Books
D. Johann Christian Daniel Schrebers ... Beschreibung der Gräser nebst ihren Abbildungen nach der Natur. Erster Theil.
Schreber, Johann Christian Daniel, 1739-1810.Date: 1769-1810- Books
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A compendious method for the raising of the Italian brocoli, Spanish Cardoon, celeriac, finochi, and other foreign kitcheh [sic]- vegetables. As also an account of the La Lucerne, St. Foyne, clover and other grass-seeds. With the method of burning clay, for the improvement of land, made very perfect and compleat from the last summer's experience. To which is added, a farther account of the burning of clay., lately Communicated to the Author by a Person of Worth and Honour of North-Britain, who has greatly experienced the same. By which it appears, that Burnt Clay is not only the cheapest but the best Discovery for the Improvement of Land (especially that which is cold and poor) ever yet produced. By Stephen Switzer, Author of the Practical Fruit and Kitchen-Gardener.
Switzer, Stephen, 1682-1745.Date: [1729]- Pictures
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Two sparrows pecking at a seedhead of corn. Watercolour.
Reference: 23607i- Pictures
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Eragrostis aspera: three sections of the flowering plant with separate flower and fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 18097i- Pictures
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Meadow rice grass (Microlæna stipoides, Br.): plant with floral segments. Lithograph, c. 1880, after J. Buchanan.
Buchanan, John, -1898.Date: [1880]Reference: 20513i- Pictures
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Couch grass (Elymus repens): flower and seedheads with roots and floral segments. Chromolithograph, c. 1887, after W. Müller.
Müller, Walther.Date: 1887Reference: 24533i- Books
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A practical treatise on cultivating lucern grass. Improved and enlarged. And some hints relative to burnet and timothy grasses. Most humbly presented to the Honourable Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. By B. Rocque, of Walham-Green.
Rocque, Bartholomew.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Pictures
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A field of grass with a row of poplar trees and a pair of white boxer shorts floating against a yellow sunset representing an advertisement for safe sex; German version of a series of 'Stop SIDA' [Stop AIDS] campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 674624i