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Wild flowers

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  • Marsh mallow plant (Althaea officinalis): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1906.
  • A wild poppy (Papaver argemone): flowering stems and leaf. Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after F. E. Hulme.
  • Fentazin : mazarine blue.
  • Wayfaring tree (Viburnum lantana): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
  • Fentazin : large blue.
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    Common sorrel (Rumex acetosa): flowering stem and separate roots. Partially coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.

    Gower, Charlotte. | Date: [1863-1880] | Reference: 24384i
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    A Bath asparagus plant (Ornithogalum pyrenaicum): entire flowering plant in two sections. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.

    Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917. | Date: [1863-1880] | Reference: 24485i
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    Common or field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1904.

    | Date: 1904 | Reference: 21101i
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    Field garlic (Allium oleraceum): flowering stem and leaves. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.

    Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917. | Date: [1863-1880] | Reference: 24407i
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    Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1903.

    | Date: 1903 | Reference: 21115i
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