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Galium

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  • Crosswort (Galium cruciata (L.) Scop.): flowering stems arising from earth mound with separate flower sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Crosswort or bedstraw (Galium cruciata): four flowering stems. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
  • Six British wild flowers, four types of bedstraw (Galium species), squinancywort (Asperula cynanchica) and levant (Rubia peregrina). Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, after H. Humphreys.
  • Lady's bedstraw (Galium verum L.): entire flowering plant with separate enlarged flower. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Crosswort (Galium cruciata (L.) Scop.): flowering plants rooted in joints of stone wall with separate flower sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
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    Crosswort (Galium cruciata (L.) Scop.): flowering plants rooted in joints of stone wall with separate flower sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

    | Date: [1772] | Reference: 16749i
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    Bedstraw or crosswort plant (Galium cruciatum) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.

    | Date: 1 October 1830 | Reference: 24168i
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    Germinating seeds and seedlings of broad bean and goosegrass. Coloured pencil drawing by H. Cowell.

    Cowell, Helen. | Reference: 22123i
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    A bedstraw plant (Galium erectum): two flowering plants. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.

    Bradbury, Henry, 1831-1860. | Date: [c. 1867] | Reference: 23672i
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    Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.

    Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870. | Date: 1861 | Reference: 24542i
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