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Cheiranthus

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  • A plant (Cheiranthus sp.): flowering stem with separate opened fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • A plant (Matthiola sinuata) with an associated beetle and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
  • A wallflower (Cheiranthus cheiri) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • A plant (Cheiranthus tricuspidatum): entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate opened fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • Five figures showing fruit, pericarps and seeds of a gooseberry, fir cone and wallflower. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
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    Four examples of single flowers: a deadly nightshade, thorn apple, periwinkle and wallflower. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.

    Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819. | Date: 31 December 1802 | Reference: 24243i
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    Five figures showing fruit, pericarps and seeds of a gooseberry, fir cone and wallflower. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.

    Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819. | Date: 31 August 1802 | Reference: 24237i
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    A wallflower (Cheiranthus cheiri) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.

    | Date: 1 September 1830 | Reference: 24160i
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    A plant (Cheiranthus fenestralis) related to wallflower: entire flowering plant. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.

    Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801. | Date: [1772] | Reference: 17809i
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    A plant (Cheiranthus sp.): flowering stem with separate opened fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.

    | Reference: 17185i
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