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Two entire flowering plants, a yellow crocus (Crocus species) and a herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia). Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.
Date: 1853 [1854]Reference: 23767i
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Saffron crocus (Crocus sativus L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments and bulb and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H.Hemerich, c.1759, after T.Sheldrake.
Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1740-1770.Date: [1759]Reference: 18234i
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A field surrounded by wooded hills, with a saffron crocus in the foreground and verses below. Etching by Matthäus Merian the elder ca. 1646.
Date: [1646?]Reference: 24650i
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Dutch crocus (Crocus vernus): four diagrams of a whole and sectioned flowering plant. Partially coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24391i
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Georgii VVolffgangi Wedelii, Med. Doctoris, Consiliarii ... Pharmaciae acroamaticae disputatio IX. De crocis, essentiis, elixiriis, extractis, & farinis, eodem praeside, / publicae disquisitioni subjecta à Christiano Andrea del Magdeburgensi, ... ad diem Januarii M DC LXXXVI.
Wedel, Georg Wolffgang, 1645-1721.Date: [1686]