Insect-induced growth on plant. often very distinctive and even species-specific structures developed when insects, fungi or bacteria stimulate abnormal growth of a plant

Two types of quadrant and a branch of common oak (Quercus robur) with galls. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1826.

Oak leaves with two oak apples. Watercolour drawing.

Oak leaves with four oak apples. Watercolour drawing.

1 print : engraving, with watercolour ; platemark 25.6 x 19.5 cm

xliii, 198 pages, III folded colour plate (including frontispiece) : illustrations ; 20 cm

Alternating generations : a biological study of oak galls and gall flies / by Hermann Adler ... Tr. and edited by Charles R. Straton.

Caroli Augusti à Bergen ... Epistola de alchimilla supina eiusque coccis. Ad virum nobilissimum atque celeberrimum Franciscum Ernestum bruckmannum, medicum apud Guelpherbytos clarissimum / [Karl August von Bergen].

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Galls (Botany)

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Oak leaves with two oak apples. Watercolour drawing.

Two types of quadrant and a branch of common oak (Quercus robur) with galls. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1826.

Alternating generations : a biological study of oak galls and gall flies / by Hermann Adler ... Tr. and edited by Charles R. Straton.

Caroli Augusti à Bergen ... Epistola de alchimilla supina eiusque coccis. Ad virum nobilissimum atque celeberrimum Franciscum Ernestum bruckmannum, medicum apud Guelpherbytos clarissimum / [Karl August von Bergen].

Oak leaves with four oak apples. Watercolour drawing.

Galls (Botany)

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Oak leaves with two oak apples. Watercolour drawing.

Two types of quadrant and a branch of common oak (Quercus robur) with galls. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1826.

Alternating generations : a biological study of oak galls and gall flies / by Hermann Adler ... Tr. and edited by Charles R. Straton.

Caroli Augusti à Bergen ... Epistola de alchimilla supina eiusque coccis. Ad virum nobilissimum atque celeberrimum Franciscum Ernestum bruckmannum, medicum apud Guelpherbytos clarissimum / [Karl August von Bergen].

Oak leaves with four oak apples. Watercolour drawing.

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