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Concept

Senecio

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  • A groundsel plant (Senecio viscosus) with an associated beetle and its abdominal segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • Seven plants, including a chalice vine and fuchsia: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • A plant (Senecio kaempferi): variegated leaf and entire potted plant. Coloured zincograph by J. Andrews, c. 1861, after himself.
  • Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) and groundsel (Senecio vulgaris): entire flowering plants.
  • Senecio verbenaefolius: flowering stem and separate root. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
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    A groundsel plant (Senecio viscosus) with an associated beetle and its abdominal segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.

    | Date: 1 April 1830 | Reference: 24044i
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    A plant (Senecio kaempferi): variegated leaf and entire potted plant. Coloured zincograph by J. Andrews, c. 1861, after himself.

    Andrews, James, active 1830-1861. | Date: [1861-71] | Reference: 26159i
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    Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) and groundsel (Senecio vulgaris): entire flowering plants.

    Naudin, Philibert, active 1870. | Date: [1865] | Reference: 24751i
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    A fruiting stem of Colutea orientalis, a flowering Lunaria fruticosa, a flowering Jacobæa ægyptiaca and a fruiting stem of Astragalus orientalis. Etching by G. D. Ehret, c. 1743, after himself.

    Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770. | Date: [1743-45] | Reference: 18623i
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    Senecio verbenaefolius: flowering stem and separate root. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.

    Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801. | Date: [1770] | Reference: 17470i
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