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  • Canary creeper (Tropaeolum peregrinum): flowering stem. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.
  • A flowering orange lily. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after Guenébeaud.
  • Flamingo flowers (Anthurium scherzerianum): flowers and leaves. Coloured lithograph, c. 1862, after W. Fitch.
  • Campion (Lychnis sp.): entire male and female flowering plants with their respective floral segments. Engraving by J.Caldwell, c.1805, after P.Henderson.
  • Saxifrage or rockfoil (Saxifraga rotundifolia): flowering and fruiting plant rising from earth mound with separate flower, fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • A species of the genus Ruellia: entire flowering plant with separate sectioned fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Seven garden plants, including two orchids: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1835.
  • Spiderwort (Tradescantia discolor): leafy plant and separate numbered sections of inflorescence, flower and fruit with seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Double and single paeony (Paeonia sp.): flowering stem of the double peony with a separate single paeony flower and floral segments. Engraving by Hopwood, c.1802, after P.Henderson.
  • A lily (Lilium persicum): flowering stem with butterfly, moth and beetle. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • Ketaki (Pandanus tectorius Sol. ex Parkinson): flower and young fruit. Coloured aquatint after J. Forbes, 1769.
  • Gromwell (Lithospermum officinale L.): entire flowering plant with separate flower, fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Early purple orchid (Orchis mascula): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1904.
  • Orange lily (Lilium species): flowering stem. Coloured etching by J. Harris, c. 1805.
  • Seven garden plants, including an orchid: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Two orchids, a whole Comparettia species and single flowers of a Schomburgkia species. Coloured pencil drawing.
  • Rockrose (Helianthemum tenuifolium): entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate segments of flower and fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • Sheep's-bit plant (Jasione montana) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
  • Bee Larkspur (Delphinium sp. var.): flowering stem with separate labelled floral segments. Engraving by J. Caldwall, c.1805, after P. Henderson.
  • Four British garden plants, including a glory pea: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Common box tree (Buxus sempervirens L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H. Hemerich, c.1759, after T. Sheldrake.
  • Friar's cowl (Arisarum vulgare Targ. Tozz.): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Flowers of three different varieties of pansy (Viola species). Coloured engraving by J. & J. Parkin, c. 1835.
  • A daffodil (Narcissus species): two flowering stems, one in outline only. Etching, c. 1787.
  • Seven British garden plants: flowering stems and some floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • Wax plant (Hoya carnosa): flowering stem. Watercolour, ca. 1850 (?).
  • Stork's bill (Erodium ciconium): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Four British garden plants, including a lily and delphinium: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Seven plants, including a chalice vine and fuchsia: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • Australian fuchsia (Correa sp.): flowering stem with floral segments. Engraving by C. Dien and J. L. Perée, c.1798, after P. J. Redouté.