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

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

Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.

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.

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].

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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