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Legumes

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  • Three flowering plants, including coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), common rue (Ruta graveolens), and a legume. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Psorsalea palaestina: flowering and fruiting stem with separate leaf, fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.
  • A climbing leguminous plant: leafy stem with pods. Watercolour.
  • Japanese clover (Lespedeza sp.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate leaf, flower, fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • A grassland plant, possibly a clover (Trifolium species): flowering stem. Watercolour.
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    Dolichos pubescens: flowering and fruiting stem with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.

    Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801. | Date: [1772] | Reference: 17749i
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    Seven garden plants, including a Cape jasmine: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

    | Date: 1834 | Reference: 27454i
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    A bunch of sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus). Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after Guenébeaud.

    Guenébeaud. | Date: 1850 | Reference: 27069i
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    Two plants, one possibly in the Leguminosae family. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 22841i
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    Vetch plant (Vicia species): flowering stem. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.

    Bradbury, Henry, 1831-1860. | Date: [c. 1867] | Reference: 23671i
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