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  • A houseleek (Sempervivum arachnoideum): flowering plant. Coloured engraving, c. 1788.

    • Curtis, William, 1746-1799.
    Date
    1788
    Reference
    25807i
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  • Stapelia hirsuta: entire flowering plant with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

    • Bouchard, Magdalena.
    Date
    [1772]
    Reference
    16707i
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  • Stonecrop or wall pepper plant (Sedum acre) with an associated beetle and anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.

    • Curtis, John, 1791-1862.
    Date
    1 November 1831
    Reference
    24224i
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  • Les plantes grasses : autres que les cactées; histoire, patrie, genres, espèces et culture, etc / par Ch. Lemaire.

    • Lemaire, Charles Antoine, 1801-1871.
    Date
    [1869]
    • Books
  • Various leaf forms, including succulent and compound. Watercolour by H. Cowell.

    • Cowell, Helen.
    Reference
    22124i
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  • Four types of spurge (Euphorbia species): two succulent stems and two low-growing plants. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1805, after J. Ihle.

    • Ihle, Johann-Eberhard, 1727-1814.
    Date
    24 August 1805
    Reference
    25495i
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  • A plant (Umbilicus sp.): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

    • Bouchard, Magdalena.
    Date
    [1772]
    Reference
    16689i
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  • Cactus and succulent growing tips.

    • Gates Cactus, Inc.
    Date
    [s.d.]
    • Books
  • Die Sukkulenten (Fettplanzen und Kakteen) : Beschreibung, Abbildung und Kultur derselben / von Theodor Rümpler ; nach dem Tode des Verfassers herausgegeben von K. Schumann.

    • Rümpler, Theodor, 1817-1891.
    Date
    1892
    • Books
    • Online
  • Two species of marsh samphire plant (Salicornia species): leafy stems. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.

    • Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.
    Date
    [1863-1880]
    Reference
    24486i
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  • Mesembryanthemum apetalum L.: entire flowering plant with separate flower. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

    • Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.
    Date
    [1776]
    Reference
    17962i
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  • A species of the genus Mesembryanthemum: flowering stem with separate leaf. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.

    • Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.
    Date
    [1770]
    Reference
    17549i
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  • A plant (Mesembryanthemum spectabile): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured lithograph by Burggraaff, c. 1830, after G. Severeyns.

    • Severeyns, G., approximately 1850-approximately 1890.
    Date
    [1827-1836]
    Reference
    25325i
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  • Two flowering plants: meadow saxifrage (Saxifraga granulata) and wall pepper or stonecrop (Sedum acre).

    • Naudin, Philibert, active 1870.
    Date
    [1865]
    Reference
    24750i
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  • The history of succulent plants: containing, the aloes, ficoid's [sic] (or fig-marigolds) torch-thistles, melon-thistles, and such others as are not capable of an hortus-siccus. Engraved, from the originals, on copper-plates. With their descriptions, and manner of culture. Decade I. By Richard Bradley, fellow of the Royal Society.

    • Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.
    Date
    MDCCXVi. [1716-27]
    • Books
    • Online
  • A plant (Euphorbia sp.): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

    • Bouchard, Magdalena.
    Date
    [1772]
    Reference
    16674i
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  • A plant (a species of Crassulaceae): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

    • Bouchard, Magdalena.
    Date
    [1772]
    Reference
    16691i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A stonecrop (Sedum villosum): entire flowering plant. Coloured lithograph, c. 1863, after C. Gower.

    • Gower, Charlotte.
    Date
    [1863-1880]
    Reference
    24415i
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  • Stonecrop (Sedum album): flowering stems. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.

    • Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.
    Date
    [1863-1880]
    Reference
    24409i
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  • A plant (Mesembryanthemum barbatum): flowering stem. Coloured engraving, c. 1789.

    • Curtis, William, 1746-1799.
    Date
    1 February 1789
    Reference
    25810i
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  • Succulent plants : description, cultivation and uses of succulent plants, other than cacti / Authorised translation by Vera Higgins, with 277 illus.

    • Jacobsen, Hermann.
    Date
    [1946]
    • Books
  • A species of the genus Mesembryanthemum: entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

    • Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.
    Date
    [1776]
    Reference
    17965i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Sea samphire (Crithmum maritimum L.): flowering stem with separate root, flower and fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.

    • Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.
    Date
    [1772]
    Reference
    17821i
    • Pictures
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  • Stonecrop (Sedum rupestre L.): flowering stem with roots. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.

    • Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.
    Date
    [1770]
    Reference
    17721i
    • Pictures
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