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A Turk's-cap lily (Lilium martagon), a harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) and a pansy (Viola species): flowering stems. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
Nicolas RobertDate: [c. 1660]Reference: 24921i
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White bryony (Bryonia dioica): flowering plant. Woodcut.
Reference: 27931i
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A larkspur (Consolida species) (?): flowering plant, leaf and floral segments. Woodcut.
Reference: 27930i
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Guatteria korinthi DC.: branch with flowers and fruit, separate fruit and cross-sections of fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1685]Reference: 16007i
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A lion surrounded by flowers and insects. Etching by J. Dunstall, 1663, after W. Hollar.
Wenceslaus HollarDate: [1674]Reference: 24365i
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Discours sur la structure des fleurs, leurs differences et l'usage de leurs parties; : Prononcé a l'ouverture du Jardin Royal de Paris ... Et l'etablissement de trois nouveaux genres de plantes l'Araliastrum, la Sherardia, la Boerhaavia ... / par Sebastien Vaillant.
Sébastien VaillantDate: MDCCXVIII. [1718]
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Source of Lopez Root (Toddalia asiatica Lam.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flower, fruit and sectioned fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1685]Reference: 16078i
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A plant (Acalypha paniculata): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flowers and fruit and cross-section of fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1685]Reference: 16000i
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Scutia myrtina Kurz.: branch with flowers and fruit and separate leaf, flowers, fruit, seeds and sectioned fruit. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1685]Reference: 16043i
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Memecylon umbellatum Burm.f.: branch with flowers and fruit, separate fruit and seed and sections of flowers and fruit. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1685]Reference: 16011i
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Honeywort (Cerinthe major): flowering stem. Colour and coloured mezzotint, c. 1741.
Jacob van HuysumDate: [1741]Reference: 25313i
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Kamala (a species of Mallotus): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flower and fruit and cross-section of fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1685]Reference: 16014i
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A plant (Zanthoxylum rhetsea) related to knobthorn: branch with flowers and fruit, separate flowers and fruit and sectioned fruit. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1685]Reference: 16051i
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Lannea coromandelica (Houtt.) Merr.: branch with leaves, flowers and fruit and sections of inflorescence, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1683]Reference: 15933i
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Mangrove Tree (Rhizophora mucronata Lam.): branch with flowers and fruits and separate sectioned flower and fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16206i
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Two bellflowers (Campanula species): flowering stems with a butterfly. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
Nicolas RobertDate: [c. 1660]Reference: 24907i
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Fever bark (Croton variegatum L.): branch with leaves only. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16284i
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A plant (Scorpiurus species): flowering and fruiting plant. Woodcut.
Reference: 27932i
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Pride-of-India, queen flower or pyinma (Lagerstroemia speciosa (L.) Pers.): branch with leaves and flowers.
Date: [1683]Reference: 15876i
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A griffin facing left surrounded by various flowers, fruits and insects. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.
Wenceslaus HollarDate: [1674]Reference: 24378i
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Three daffodils, including the wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus): flowering stems with a butterfly. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
Nicolas RobertDate: [c. 1660]Reference: 24931i
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The anatomy of plants : with an idea of a philosophical history of plants, and several other lectures, read before the royal society / by Nehemjah Grew.
Nehemiah GrewDate: 1682
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Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac (L.) Aiton): branch with double flowers and fruit. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16265i
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Promenade dans des jardins disparus : les plantes au moyen age d'après les Grandes heures d'Anne de Bretagne / Michèle Bilimoff.
Bilimoff, MichèleDate: [2001], ©2001
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Avicennia officinalis L.: branch with flowers, fruit and leaves and separate sections of fruits, flowers and kernels. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1683]Reference: 15950i