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  • White bryony (Bryonia dioica): flowering plant. Woodcut.
  • Marsh mallow plant (Althaea officinalis): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1906.
  • Opium lettuce (Lactuca virosa): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna): flowering plants growing in woodland. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • Chinese lantern (Physalis alkekengi): fruiting stem. Watercolour by B. Bird.
  • Damask rose (Rosa damascena "Italica"): flowering stem. Colour halftone after Victor, c.1824, after P. J. Redouté.
  • Toadflax (Linaria arvensis): flowering stem with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1775.
  • Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum): leaves and fruits. Pen drawing, partially coloured.
  • Solomon's seal (Polygonatum multiflorum): rootstock. Watercolour.
  • Foxglove (Digitalis fuscescens): two sections of the flowering stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.
  • Jambolan or Java plum (Eugenia jambolana Lam.): fruiting branch with numbered figures of inflorescence and sectioned flower, fruit and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare): entire flowering plant. Watercolour.
  • Jambolan or Java plum (Eugenia jambolana Lam.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers and fruit. Coloured line engraving.
  • Coffee plant (Coffea arabica): fruiting stem. Watercolour, c.1823.
  • Bugloss or alkanet (Anchusa officinalis L.): entire flowering plant with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Yarrow (Achillea santolina): flowering plant with leaf and floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.
  • Watercress (Nasturtium officinale R.Br.): entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate calyx, fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • Angelica (Angelica archangelica): root segments and stem with bud. Watercolour.
  • Sweet cicely (Myrrhis odorata (L.) Scop.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate rootstock and flower. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
  • A plant related to birthwort, (Aristolochia longa L.): flowering stem with separate rhizome and sections of fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Two roundels: above, a man supported by his wife and children prays before an altar of Aesculapius; below, a garland of medicinal plants, and angels representing pharmacy and botany. Coloured engraving by P. Lenormand, ca. 1830, partly after N. Guérin.
  • Hedge sison (Sison amomum L.): flowering stem with separate leaf, flower and fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • The first edition of Steward's healing art, corrected and improved by the original hand : to which he has added all his late improvements and new discoveries, both in physick and surgery, from the year 1812 to the year 1826 ... : to which he has added, A concise herbal ... / by William Steward.
  • The blossom and fruit of a coffee tree (Coffea arabica) Photograph.
  • Wild garlic plant (Allium ursinum) with an associated beetle and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
  • Fever bark (a species of Croton): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flower, fruit and seeds and sections of fruit. Coloured line engraving.
  • Bugloss (Echium lycopsis L.): entire flowering plant. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Comfrey (Symphytum tuberosum L.): entire flowering plant with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Cinchona plant (Cinchona caribbaea): flowering and fruiting branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.
  • White bryony (Bryonia dioica): flowering and fruiting stem with floral segments. Coloured etching after J. Miller, 1791.