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  • Quaking grass (Briza media): flowering stem, leaves and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1796.
  • Quaking grass (Briza minor) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.

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    Quaking grass (Briza minor) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.

    | Date: 1 April 1831 | Reference: 24198i
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    Quaking grass (Briza media): flowering stem, leaves and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1796.

    James Sowerby | Date: 1 August 1796 | Reference: 24965i

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