Volume 1

The natural history of plants : their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution / from the German of the late Anton Kerner von Marilaun by F.W. Oliver ; with the assistance of Lady Busk, and Mrs. M.F. Macdonald ; with about two thousand original woodcut illustrations.

  • Anton Joseph Kerner von Marilaun
Date:
1903
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Credit: The natural history of plants : their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution / from the German of the late Anton Kerner von Marilaun by F.W. Oliver ; with the assistance of Lady Busk, and Mrs. M.F. Macdonald ; with about two thousand original woodcut illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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