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Begonias

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  • Eight plants, including three orchids, a crocus and a begonia: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Seven garden plants, including an orchid and a begonia: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Demostracion de las eficaces virtudes nuevamente descubiertas en las raices de des plantas de Nueva-España : especies de ágave y de begónia, para la curacion del vicio venéreo y escrofuloso, y de otras graves enfermedades. Que resisten al uso del mercurio, y demas remedios conocidos ...  / Por ... Don Francisco Xavier Bálmis.
  • Seven garden plants, including two orchids and a begonia: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • A begonia plant (Begonia crassicaulis): flowering stems and leaf. Coloured engraving by G. Barclay, c. 1842, after S. Drake.
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    Seven garden plants, including an orchid and an amaryllis: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.

    | Date: 1836 | Reference: 27509i
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    A begonia plant (Begonia sedeni): flowering stem. Chromolithograph, c.1869, after W. H. Fitch.

    Fitch, W. H. (Walter Hood), 1817-1892. | Date: 1869 | Reference: 28152i
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    Demostracion de las eficaces virtudes nuevamente descubiertas en las raices de des plantas de Nueva-España : especies de ágave y de begónia, para la curacion del vicio venéreo y escrofuloso, y de otras graves enfermedades. Que resisten al uso del mercurio, y demas remedios conocidos ... / Por ... Don Francisco Xavier Bálmis.

    Balmis, Francisco Xavier de, 1753-1819 or 1820. | Date: 1794
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    Eight plants, including three orchids, a crocus and a begonia: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837.

    | Date: 1837 | Reference: 27876i
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    Seven garden plants, including an orchid and a begonia: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.

    | Date: 1836 | Reference: 27505i
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