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Plant anatomy

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  • A crocus (Crocus stellaris): entire flowering plant and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1812.
  • Various leaf forms, leaf venation, bud arrangements and woody stems. Watercolour by I. Sawkins.
  • Cluster of fruit of a date palm (Phoenix dactylifera). Colour aquatint by G. Carocci, 1838, after I. Palmerini, 1837.
  • A fern, a moss, a fungus and an alga: all with anatomical details. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.
  • Pollinia (clumps of pollen) of the butterfly habenaria orchid (Habenaria bifolia) on a single stamen. Watercolour, 1892.
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    Three different flowers and two fruit with anatomical details. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.

    | Date: 4 August 1799 | Reference: 25568i
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    Fourteen different forms of plant stem. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.

    | Date: 12 June 1799 | Reference: 25558i
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    Three mosses (Neckera species) with anatomical detail and five carrion eater beetles (Necydalis species). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1818.

    | Date: [1819] | Reference: 25518i
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    Four examples of single flowers: a deadly nightshade, thorn apple, periwinkle and wallflower. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.

    Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819. | Date: 31 December 1802 | Reference: 24243i
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    Dutch crocus (Crocus vernus): four diagrams of a whole and sectioned flowering plant. Partially coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.

    Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917. | Date: [1863-1880] | Reference: 24391i
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