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Botanical gardens

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  • Psorsalea palaestina: flowering and fruiting stem with separate leaf, fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.
  • Japanese clover (Lespedeza sp.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate leaf, flower, fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Germander (Teucrium massiliense L.): flowering stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Nerine undulata: entire flowering plant. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Nettle (Urtica nivea L.): flowering stem with separate flower and fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.
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    Dolichos pubescens: flowering and fruiting stem with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.

    Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801. | Date: [1772] | Reference: 17749i
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    Wild carrot (Daucus carota L.): flowering stem with separate root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

    Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801. | Date: [1776] | Reference: 18117i
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    Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.): entire flowering plant with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

    Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801. | Date: [1776] | Reference: 18104i
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    Jardin Royal, Paris: showing figures strolling in the garden. Line engraving by J.B. Scotin the younger.

    Scotin, Gérard Jean-Baptiste, II, 1698-1733. | Reference: 21893i
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    M0011872: Reproduction of an engraving of the botanic gardens at Chelsea (Chelsea Physic Garden), showing a plan of the garden, the green-houses, and the river with boats on it, from Pierre Élie Félix Perrédès' London botanic gardens, 1906

    | Date: 1951 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/105/73
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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