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Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum): leaves and fruits. Pen drawing, partially coloured.

Eight plants, including an orchid, a magnolia and a cactus: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

Two spiny plants (Solanum sisymbrifolium): flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.

Four poisonous plants: monk's hood (Aconitum napellus), deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) and thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone, 1855.

Two aubergine fruits (Solanum melongena) and an umbelliferous plant stem. Watercolour.

Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.

A plant (Solanum sp.): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

A plant (Solanum igneum L.): flowering stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.

Aubergine or egg plant (Solanum melongena): fruits of different varieties. Chromolithograph, c. 1870, after H. Briscoe.

Woody nightshade or bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara): flowering and fruiting stem. Watercolour.

Solanum dulcamara as a medicinal plant / by John Harley.

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Woody nightshade or bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara): flowering and fruiting stem. Watercolour.

Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

Aubergine or egg plant (Solanum melongena): fruits of different varieties. Chromolithograph, c. 1870, after H. Briscoe.

Solanum dulcamara as a medicinal plant / by John Harley.

A plant (Solanum sp.): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.