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Giant water lily (Victoria amazonica): an expanded flower with surrounding leaves and buds. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1845, after himself.

Three men standing by the huge trunk of an Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus amygdalina), in a forest. Wood engraving, c. 1867.

Cluster of fruit of a date palm (Phoenix dactylifera). Colour aquatint by G. Carocci, 1838, after I. Palmerini, 1837.

Giant water lily (Victoria amazonica): an opening flower with surrounding leaves and buds. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1845, after himself.

View from inside an enormous banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis L.). Engraving by J. Greig, after J. Forbes, 1778.

Four men standing by the huge trunk of an Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus species). Wood engraving, c. 1867.

Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis L.) with many trunks. Lithograph by W. Stoker, 1811, after J. Forbes, 1778.

Outline of a tall tree, dwarfing figure at its base. Pencil drawing.

Sections of wood from the stem of a date palm (Phoenix dactylifera). Coloured aquatint by G. Carocci, 1839, after D. del Rè, 1833.

A galled tree (Mimosa cinerea), a Jamaica pepper tree (Pimenta dioica) and a Turkey rhubarb plant (Rheum palmatum). Coloured engraving, c. 1827.

Californian redwood trees (Sequoia sempervirens (D.Don) Endl.): group of trees in the Mariposa Grove, California. Colour lithograph by W. H. McFarlane.

Two men standing by the huge trunk of an Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus amygdalina). Wood engraving, c. 1867.

Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day / abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle ; with 295 illustrations in the text, and 12 half-tone and colored plates.

Vegetable teratology : an account of the principal deviations from the usual construction of plants / Maxwell T. Masters ; with numerous illus. by E.M. Williams.

Degeneracy : its causes, signs, and results / by Eugene S. Talbot.

Prevention of handicap and the health of women / Margaret Wynn and Arthur Wynn.

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Plants - Abnormalities

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Images about Plants - Abnormalities

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Vegetable teratology : an account of the principal deviations from the usual construction of plants / Maxwell T. Masters ; with numerous illus. by E.M. Williams.

A galled tree (Mimosa cinerea), a Jamaica pepper tree (Pimenta dioica) and a Turkey rhubarb plant (Rheum palmatum). Coloured engraving, c. 1827.

Degeneracy : its causes, signs, and results / by Eugene S. Talbot.

Prevention of handicap and the health of women / Margaret Wynn and Arthur Wynn.

Plants - Abnormalities

Images from the collections

Images about Plants - Abnormalities

Works from the collections

Vegetable teratology : an account of the principal deviations from the usual construction of plants / Maxwell T. Masters ; with numerous illus. by E.M. Williams.

A galled tree (Mimosa cinerea), a Jamaica pepper tree (Pimenta dioica) and a Turkey rhubarb plant (Rheum palmatum). Coloured engraving, c. 1827.

Degeneracy : its causes, signs, and results / by Eugene S. Talbot.

Prevention of handicap and the health of women / Margaret Wynn and Arthur Wynn.

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