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Tobacco plants (Nicotiana rustica and N. paniculata): flowering and fruiting stem of both species with their respective floral segments.Engraving by J.Caldwall, c.1805, after P.Henderson.
Henderson, Peter, active 1799-1829.Date: 1 July 1805Reference: 18320i
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The healing power of plants / University of Oxford Botanic Garden.
Botanic Garden (University of Oxford)Date: [1996]
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Three liliaceous flowering plants, including lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) and whorled Solomon's seal (Polygonatum verticillatum). Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.
Date: 1853 [1854]Reference: 23773i
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Medical botany; or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias : Comprising a poular and scientific account of poisonous vegetables indigenous to Great Britain / By John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill.
Stephenson, John, 1790-1864.Date: MDCCCXXXIV-MDCCCXXXVI [1834-1836]
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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.
Date: [1855]Reference: 28005i
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A description of the genus Cinchona, comprehending the various species of vegetables from which the Peruvian and other barks of a similar quality are taken. Illustrated by figures of all the species hitherto discovered. To which is prefixed Professor Vahl's dissertation on this genus, read before the Society of natural history at Copenhagen. Also a description, accompanied by figures, of a new genus named Hyænanche: or hyæna poison.
Lambert, Aylmer Bourke, 1761-1842.Date: 1797
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A lamb-shaped vegetable called Tartarian lamb or Scythian lamb, reputed to allow no other plants to grow near it. Aquatint by J. Halfpenny, 1787.
Date: [1787]Reference: 2496789i
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Lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis L.): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16581i
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Monkshood (Aconitum napellus): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured etching.
Reference: 25334i
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People reaching for alcoholic drink falling from a pile of barrels of liquor likened to the upas-tree; skeletons litter the ground. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1842]Reference: 26469i
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A thistle flower and crab's eyes plant (Abrus species). Watercolour.
Reference: 22783i
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Poisonous fungi: 24 species, including Agaricus, Hypophyllum and Amanita species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, c. 1827, after Prieur.
Prieur, active 1820-1830.Date: [1827]Reference: 20601i
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Water dropwort (Oenanthe sp.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate rootstock, flower and fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
Date: [1778]Reference: 17399i
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Monkshood (Aconitum napellus): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
Naudin, Philibert, active 1870.Date: [1865]Reference: 24662i
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Stinking hellebore (Helleborus foetidus) with an associated beetle and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
Date: 1 July 1831Reference: 24208i
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Oleander or rose-bay (?Nerium oleander): flowering stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 21982i
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Two flowering plants: thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) on the left and henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) on the right. Colour process print, 1924.
Date: 12 April 1924Reference: 25610i
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A tropical aroid (Philodendron simsii): spadix, spathe and leaf bases. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after C. Rosenberg.
Rosenberg, C. T., active approximately 1850.Date: [1850-51]Reference: 26364i
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Hellebore (Helleborus atrorubens): fruiting stem with roots and separate flowering stem. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.
Schütz, Johann.Date: [1802/12]Reference: 18447i
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Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum): leaves and fruits. Pen drawing, partially coloured.
Reference: 22367i
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Monkshood (Aconitum napellus): flowering plant. Colour process print, c. 1924.
Date: 12 January 1924Reference: 25596i
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Foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea): flowering plants. Colour process print, c. 1924.
Date: [1924]Reference: 25608i
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People of Borneo. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1873, after F. Regamey after a photograph by August Sachtler.
Sachtler, August (Photographer), active 1873.Date: 4 January 1873Reference: 44142i
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Wicked plants : the weed that killed Lincoln's mother & other botanical atrocities / Amy Stewart ; etchings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs ; illustrations by Jonathon Rosen.
Stewart, Amy.Date: 2009
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Herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia L.): entire flowering plant with separate segments of fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
Reference: 17238i