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  • Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna): flowering plants growing in woodland. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • Chinese lantern (Physalis alkekengi): fruiting stem. Watercolour by B. Bird.
  • Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum): leaves and fruits. Pen drawing, partially coloured.
  • Foxglove (Digitalis fuscescens): two sections of the flowering stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.
  • A plant related to birthwort, (Aristolochia longa L.): flowering stem with separate rhizome and sections of fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • A Christmas rose (Helleborus niger), a poppy (Papaver species) and borage (Borago officinalis): flowering stems. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • Monkshood (Aconitum napellus): flowering plant. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • Tobacco (Nicotiana sp.): flowering stem with separate leaf. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea): flowering plants. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • Strophanthus dichotomus Decne.: flowering branch with separate numbered sections of flower, follicle and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Buttercup (Ranunculus sp.): flowering and stoloniferous stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Smoking tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Monkshood (Aconitum napellus): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Aconite or monkshood (Aconitum napellus L.): flowering stem with separate labelled floral segments. Engraving by J.Caldwall, c.1804, after P. Henderson.
  • Spurge laurel (daphne laureola. Family: Thymelaeaceae) : Myolgin tablets.
  • Bee Larkspur (Delphinium sp. var.): flowering stem with separate labelled floral segments. Engraving by J. Caldwall, c.1805, after P. Henderson.
  • A thistle flower and crab's eyes plant (Abrus species). Watercolour.
  • Caper spurge (Euphorbia lathyrus. Family: Euphorbiaceae) : Corangil tablets.
  • Stinking hellebore (Helleborus foetidus): flowering stem. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • White bryony (Bryonia dioica. Family: Curcurbitaceae) : DF 118 releases the patient from severe pain...without narcotics.
  • An oleander plant (Nerium oleander): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after A. Bétrérnieux (?).
  • Four poisonous plants: monk's hood (Aconitum napellus), deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) and thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone, 1855.
  • Four types of hellebore (Helleborus species): flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.
  • A Christmas rose or black hellebore (Helleborus niger): flowering stem. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • Hemlock (Conium maculatum): flowering plants growing by a river. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • Poison primula (Primula obconica): flowering plant. Chromolithograph, c. 1897, after H. Moon.
  • Three flowering plants, including a lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) and an anemone (Anemone species). Nature print by F. Branson, 1854.
  • Poisonous fungi: 24 species, including Agaricus, Hypophyllum and Amanita species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, c. 1827, after Prieur.
  • Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
  • Fungi: twenty species, including the fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), death cap (Amanita phalloides) and Boletus and Agaricus species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, c. 1827, after Prieur.