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Nux-vomica plant (Strychnos nux-vomica): flowering stem, sectioned fruit and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.
Burnett, M. A., active 1850.Date: [1847]Reference: 23824i
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Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16859i
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Du yao ben cao / zhu bian Yang Cangliang ; fu zhu bian Pan Zhiqiang [and others].
Date: 1993
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Two entire flowering plants, a yellow crocus (Crocus species) and a herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia). Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.
Date: 1853 [1854]Reference: 23767i
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Türkiye zehirli nebatlarının en ehemmiyetlileri üzerinde kimyevî arąstırmalar / yazan Ali Rıza Gürgen.
Gürgen, Ali Riza.Date: 1943
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Bee Larkspur (Delphinium sp. var.): flowering stem with separate labelled floral segments. Engraving by J. Caldwall, c.1805, after P. Henderson.
Henderson, Peter, active 1799-1829.Date: 1 January 1805Reference: 18315i
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Helmet flower (Aconitum anthora 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.
Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1740-1770.Date: [1759]Reference: 18230i
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Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1903.
Date: 1903Reference: 21104i
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Dissertation sur les effets d'un poison de Java, appelé Upas tieuté, et sur la noix vomique, la fève de St.-Ignace, le Strychnos potatorum, et la pomme de Vontac, qui sont du même genre de plantes que l'Upas tieuté ... / par Alire Raffeneau-Delile.
Raffeneau-Delile, Alire, 1778-1850.Date: 1809
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Joh. Jacobi Wepferi ... Historia cicutæ aquaticæ, : quâ non solùm plantæ hujus venenatæ structura naturalis, vires & operationes deleteriæ in hominibus ac brutis adcuratè describuntur, sciteque explicantur ... Adjectæ sunt ad calcem dissertationes de thee helvetico ac cymbalaria. / Curante Theodoro Zvingero.
Wepfer, Johann Jakob, 1620-1695.Date: 1716
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Lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis): flowering stem with leaves and separate roots. Partially coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.
Gower, Charlotte.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24383i
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Caper spurge (Euphorbia lathyrus. Family: Euphorbiaceae) : Corangil tablets.
Date: [1966]
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Four flowering and fruiting plants: black bryony, herb Paris, common asparagus and butchers broom. Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
W. Dickes & Co.Date: [1855]Reference: 24823i
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A tropical plant (Acokanthera spectabilis): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1872, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1872]Reference: 25906i
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Hemlock (Conium maculatum): flowering plants growing by a river. Colour process print, c. 1924.
Date: 1 March 1924Reference: 25599i
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Moyens de remédier aux poisons végétaux : a ceux qui sont produits par les substances métalliques, et au venin des animaux / par B.G. Sage.
Sage, Balthazar Georges, 1740-1824.Date: 1811
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A plant (Aristolochia sp.) related to birthwort: part of twining, flowering stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16910i
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Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna): flowering plants growing in woodland. Colour process print, c. 1924.
Date: [1924]Reference: 25605i
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Water fennel (Oenanthe aquatica (L.) Poiret): flowering and fruiting stem with separate flower and fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
Date: [1778]Reference: 17380i
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Poison primula (Primula obconica): flowering plant. Chromolithograph, c. 1897, after H. Moon.
Moon, Henry George, 1857-1905.Date: [1897]Reference: 25887i
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Two flowering plants: scarlet phelypaea (Phelypaea coccinea) and water hemlock (Oenanthe crocata). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1824.
Date: [1827]Reference: 25513i
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Three flowering plants, including a lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) and an anemone (Anemone species). Nature print by F. Branson, 1854.
Branson, Ferguson, active 1850.Date: 1854Reference: 23765i
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Four poisonous plants: crowfoot (Ranunculus alpestris), fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria), foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and hellebore (Helleborus niger) Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone.
Date: [1855]Reference: 28013i
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Bracken plants (Pteridium aquilinum): both young and old fronds. Watercolour.
Reference: 23598i
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Water dropwort (Oenanthe crocata L.): flowering stem with separate root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 18096i