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A crocus (Crocus stellaris): entire flowering plant and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1812.

Autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale): flowering plant, leaves and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.

Eight plants, including three orchids, a crocus and a begonia: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837.

Eight plants, including two orchids, a crocus and some tulips: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837.

Four British garden plants, including a paeony and crocus: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1836.

Dutch crocus (Crocus vernus): four diagrams of a whole and sectioned flowering plant. Partially coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.

Crocus sativus (Saffron)

Four poisonous plants: hemlock (Conium maculatum), henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), opium lettuce (Lactuca virosa) and autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale). Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone.

A field surrounded by wooded hills, with a saffron crocus in the foreground and verses below. Etching by Matthäus Merian the elder ca. 1646.

Three plants, an anenome, a mercury and a crocus: entire flowering plants. Colour nature print, c. 1860.

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.

Two entire flowering plants, a yellow crocus (Crocus species) and a herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia). Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.

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.

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Crocus

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Images referencing Crocus

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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.

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.

A field surrounded by wooded hills, with a saffron crocus in the foreground and verses below. Etching by Matthäus Merian the elder ca. 1646.

Dutch crocus (Crocus vernus): four diagrams of a whole and sectioned flowering plant. Partially coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.

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.

Crocus

Images from the collections

Images referencing Crocus

Works from the collections

Two entire flowering plants, a yellow crocus (Crocus species) and a herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia). Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.

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.

A field surrounded by wooded hills, with a saffron crocus in the foreground and verses below. Etching by Matthäus Merian the elder ca. 1646.

Dutch crocus (Crocus vernus): four diagrams of a whole and sectioned flowering plant. Partially coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.

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.

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