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

Date

[spring 1736]

Reference

28364i

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

Reference

22084i

Aubergine or egg plant (Solanum melongena): fruits of different varieties. Chromolithograph, c. 1870, after H. Briscoe.

Date

[1870]

Reference

26150i

A crimson petunia plant (Petunia x hybrida): flowering stem. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.

Date

[1879-1887]

Reference

24349i

A cudweed plant (Gnaphalium species), mandrake plant (Mandragora officinarum) and breadfruit tree (Artocarpus atilis). Coloured engraving, c. 1827.

Date

[1827]

Reference

27951i

Browallia americana L.: entire flowering plant with separate parts of fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

Date

[1774]

Reference

17029i

Four examples of single flowers: a deadly nightshade, thorn apple, periwinkle and wallflower. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.

Date

31 December 1802

Reference

24243i

A plant (Solanum sp.): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

Date

[1774]

Reference

16861i

Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna): flowering plants growing in woodland. Colour process print, c. 1924.

Date

[1924]

Reference

25605i

A fruiting Abutilon species, a fruiting pepper plant (Capsicum sp.) and a flowering Sisyrinchium orientale. Etching by G. D. Ehret, c. 1743, after himself.

Date

[1743-45]

Reference

18619i

Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica

Date

1876-1930

Reference

MSS.2867-2932, 7961 & WMS/Amer.145-148

Mandrake roots in the form of human figures, both naked and clothed; the mandrake plant itself (Mandragora officinarum L.); and a root of ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.). Engraving.

Reference

20442i

Seven plants, including a chalice vine and fuchsia: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1833.

Date

1833

Reference

27548i

Tobacco plants (Nicotiana rustica and N. paniculata): flowering and fruiting stem of both species with their respective floral segments.Engraving by J.Caldwall, c.1805, after P.Henderson.

Date

1 July 1805

Reference

18320i

Five different types of butterfly flower (Schizanthus species): flowering stems and leaves. Coloured lithograph.

Reference

27236i

Four poisonous plants: monk's hood (Aconitum napellus), deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) and thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone, 1855.

Date

[1855]

Reference

28005i

A Brazilian sassafras tree (Aniba species) and a Petunia plant in an exotic landscape with snakes, lizards and tribal people. Etching, c. 1671.

Date

[1671]

Reference

24657i

Chinese boxthorn (Lycium barbarum): stem with leaves. Watercolour.

Reference

22582i

Two flowering plants: thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) on the left and henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) on the right. Colour process print, 1924.

Date

12 April 1924

Reference

25610i

Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum): leaves and fruits. Pen drawing, partially coloured.

Reference

22367i

Two spiny plants (Solanum sisymbrifolium): flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.

Reference

27245i

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

Date

[spring 1736]

Reference

28360i

Workers harvesting sago in a tropical wooded glade with a bilimbi tree, a sago palm, a durian tree and a pepper plant. Engraving, c. 1777.

Date

[1777-78]

Reference

26351i

Five large cacti and a sweet potato plant (Ipomoea batatas) in a tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

Date

[1671]

Reference

24651i

Four poisonous plants: hemlock (Conium maculatum), henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), opium lettuce (Lactuca virosa) and autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale). Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone.

Date

1855

Reference

28008i