Cuckoo-pint (Arum maculatum): spathe and spadix with hairs and flowers, fruiting stem, leaf and tuber. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.

  • Burnett, M. A., active 1850.
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[1853]
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23985i
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Cuckoo-pint tubers are edible cooked and a source of Portland arrowroot, also formerly used to starch linen

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London : James Sangster & Co., [1853]

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1 print : zincograph, with watercolour

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Arum maculatum (the common arum)

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Wellcome Collection 23985i

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