Seven British garden plants, including stinking Benjamin: flowering stems and some floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.

Water plantain (Alisma flava): base of flowering stem with root and separate infructescence and floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.

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