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Six cut Ranunculus flowers: double-flowered varieties with leaves. Watercolour by Mrs. Montgomery.

Four plants, including a fritillary (Fritillaria) and a wood buttercup (Ranunculus nemorosus): flowering stems. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.

Buttercup (Ranunculus sp.): flowering and stoloniferous stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

A plant (Ranunculus species): flowering plant in a pot. Woodcut.

Celandine (Ranunculus ficaria): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.

Three plants, including a cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) and an iris: flowering stems with two grasshoppers. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.

Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.

Five examples of different plant stems: a crow-foot, pilewort, onion, cuckoo flower and sheep's fescue plant. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.

Buttercup (Ranunculus grandiflorus): flowering stem and flowers. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

A buttercup (Ranunculus arvensis) with an associated insect and its abdominal segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.

Four poisonous plants: crowfoot (Ranunculus alpestris), fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria), foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and hellebore (Helleborus niger) Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone.

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Celandine (Ranunculus ficaria): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.

A buttercup (Ranunculus arvensis) with an associated insect and its abdominal segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.

Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

Six cut Ranunculus flowers: double-flowered varieties with leaves. Watercolour by Mrs. Montgomery.

Four poisonous plants: crowfoot (Ranunculus alpestris), fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria), foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and hellebore (Helleborus niger) Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone.