Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna): flowering plants growing in woodland. Colour process print, c. 1924.

Chinese lantern (Physalis alkekengi): fruiting stem. Watercolour by B. Bird.

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

Foxglove (Digitalis fuscescens): two sections of the flowering stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.

A plant related to birthwort, (Aristolochia longa L.): flowering stem with separate rhizome and sections of fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

A Christmas rose (Helleborus niger), a poppy (Papaver species) and borage (Borago officinalis): flowering stems. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.

Monkshood (Aconitum napellus): flowering plant. Colour process print, c. 1924.

Tobacco (Nicotiana sp.): flowering stem with separate leaf. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

Foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea): flowering plants. Colour process print, c. 1924.

Strophanthus dichotomus Decne.: flowering branch with separate numbered sections of flower, follicle and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Buttercup (Ranunculus sp.): flowering and stoloniferous stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

Smoking tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

Nux-vomica plant (Strychnos nux-vomica): flowering stem, sectioned fruit and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 37.0 x 23.1 cm

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

3 pages ., v-xix, 421 pages : colour frontispiece, illustrations, diagrams ; 24 cm

Range and pasture management / by Arthur W. Sampson.

Du yao ben cao / zhu bian Yang Cangliang ; fu zhu bian Pan Zhiqiang [and others].

20 unnumbered pages, 332 pages, 12 unnumbered pages : woodcuts, illustrations ; (4to)

Iacobi Grevini Claromontani Bellovaci Parisiensis medici ... De venenis libri dvo. Gallice primvm ab eo scripti, et à multis hactenus Latini desiderati / et nunc tandem opera et labore Hieremiæ Martij ... in Latinam sermonem ... conuersi. Quibus adiunctus est prætereà eiusdem auctoris de antimonio tractatus [and Nicandri ... theriaca and alexipharmaca] Eodem interprete, vnà cum rerum memorabilium, præcipuè ad operis calcem, Indice.

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Plants, Toxic

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Images referencing Plants, Toxic

Works from the collections

Nux-vomica plant (Strychnos nux-vomica): flowering stem, sectioned fruit and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.

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

Range and pasture management / by Arthur W. Sampson.

Du yao ben cao / zhu bian Yang Cangliang ; fu zhu bian Pan Zhiqiang [and others].

Plants, Toxic

Images from the collections

Images referencing Plants, Toxic

Works from the collections

Nux-vomica plant (Strychnos nux-vomica): flowering stem, sectioned fruit and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.

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

Range and pasture management / by Arthur W. Sampson.

Du yao ben cao / zhu bian Yang Cangliang ; fu zhu bian Pan Zhiqiang [and others].

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