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  • Two flowering plants, one possibly a campanula. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Grape vine (Vitis vinifera L.) with black grapes. Coloured lithograph after J. Polydore.
  • A Vespetro label illustrated with a bunch of four plants. Coloured engraving, 19th century.
  • Screwpine plants (Pandanus species) of Madagascar, sheltering a tent. Wood engraving, c. 1867.
  • Five flowering plants, one possibly an Anthriscus species. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Types of orangery. Coloured engraving.
  • Seven flowering plants, all species of the genus Oxalis. Coloured lithograph.
  • Four flowering plants, including a toad lily (Tricyrtis species) and a pink (Dianthus species). Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Horse chestnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum L.): seeds (conkers) and their shells, with a poem about them. Etching with drypoint by A. Taiée after himself, c.1875.
  • Hog fennel (Peucedanum officinale) and eight types of cup fungi (Peziza species). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1823.
  • A plant (Watsonia rosea): flowering stem and leaf. Coloured lithograph.
  • Trunk and branch of a sacred, East Indian "dragtoe" tree, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruin, 1706.
  • Field madder (Sherardia arvensis L.): entire flowering plant with separate flower sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • A tropical plant (Gomphia crassifolia): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.
  • Cream iris flowers. Watercolour by J. A. Sherlock, 1901.
  • Four flowering plants. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Five roots of different forms: spindle-shaped (carrot), fibrous (grass), beet-shaped (radish), tuberous (water hemlock), and onion-shaped (onion). Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • Dracophyllum verticillatum: flowering stem with floral segments. Engraving by C.T. Warren, c.1800, after J. Piron.
  • A tree, possibly siver birch (Betula pendula). Pencil drawing.
  • Autumn leaves of bramble (Rubus species). Watercolour drawing.
  • A plant (Hyacinthus corymbosus): flowering plant. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1807, after S. Edwards.
  • Six flowering plants, all with a different type of compound inflorescence. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • Three men standing by the huge trunk of an Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus amygdalina), in a forest. Wood engraving, c. 1867.
  • Plantain or ribwort (Plantago sp.): flowering plant with separate flower. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Floral bouquet. Engraving by N. de Poilly, c.1660, after himself.
  • Wood avens (Geum urbanum): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Three flowering plants, one possibly a composite. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Black bryony (Tamus communis): fruiting stem. Partially coloured pen drawing.
  • Rhododendron (Rhododendron ponticum): flowering stem. Watercolour, ca. 1850 (?).
  • Six plants, all with a different type of fruit or inflorescence. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.