Eudicot Collection (page 9)

Plantago hirsuta
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Teucrium abutiloides
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Oxalis filifolia
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Hans Sloane Vol. 211 page 29
Viola violacea Makino, Oxalis corniculata and Trachelospermum asiaticum Nakai. Specimens taken from Hans Sloane Vol.211 page 29

Myrsine retusa
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Specimens (including butterflies) from the Paul Hermann Coll
Specimens from the Paul Hermann collection of five volumes of specimens and drawings from Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 1672-1677. Held at The Natural History Museum, London

Trapa natans, var. bispinosa
Image of trapa natans var. bispinosa in Plants of the Coast of Coromandel by W. Roxburgh

The Wellington Tree Cupboard
This tree was made from an elm tree that sheltered the Duke of Wellington during the Battle of Waterloo, in Belgium

Theobroma cacao
Cocoa plant brought back from Jamaica in 1689 by Hans Sloane. Illustration by Everhardus Kickius. Specimen kept in the Botany Library

Rheum nobile, Sikkim rhubarb
Specimen of Sikkim rhubarb (Rheum nobile) collected by Frank Ludlow, George Sherriff and N M Elliot in Tibet in 1947

Pressed Auricula specimens
Specimens from the herbarium of Mary Somerset (the Duchess of Beaufort). Pressed by the Duchess herself (1630 - 1714)

Platanus x hispanica, London plane leaves
London plane leaves fallen in the Natural History Museum Wildlife Garden. Photo taken on November 1997 by Sue Snell

Solandra sp. cup of gold

Beta vulgaris, common beet
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection at the Natural History Museum, London

Quercus, pollard oak
Plate 22 from The Shape, Skeleton and Foliage of Thirty two species of Trees, 1786 by A. Cozens. The series was originally issued in 1771

Empidonax virescnes, Elliottia racemosa, Callirrhoe triangul
Acadian flycatcher, elliottia, poppy mallow and pipit. Drawing 20 (Ewan 46) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram

Plate 48 from Mineralogie
Mine d Or granuleuse avec du Spath perle couleur de Rose. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.6 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Malus sp. apple
Plate 11 from Pomona Franconica, Vol 3 (1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Calville rouge d Automne

Nelumbo lutea, American lotus & Dionaea muscipula, venus fly

Three varieties of cherries
Plate 13 from Pomona Britannica (1812) by George Brookshaw. Top: morello cherry (Prunus cerasus), centre: caroon cherry (Prunus sp.), bottom: unnamed (Prunus sp.)

Crataegus monogyna, oneseed hawthorn
Drawing 58/2b made in 1903 by Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Lophura ignita macartneyi, Tragopan melanocephalus
Plate 70, lithograph by K.I. Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinzs Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der V� -Gattungen, (1831-1833)

Nigella hispanica, fennel flower
Drawing 1/20 made in 1905 by Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Cereus napoleonis, strawberry-pear
Plate 12 from Endlichers paradisus vindobonesis (1844-1860) by Anton Hartinger. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Sitta pusila, brown-headed nuthatch, Sitta carolinensis, whi
Plate 22, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Vitis sp. royal muscadine grape

Echinospermum squarrosum, stick-seed
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Lychnis chalcedonica, Maltese cross
Plate 26 from Ladies Flower Garden Annuals (1843) by Jane Wells Loudon. Also shows Coronata, Fulgens, Agrostemma Saponaria and Gypsophylla

Ulmus procera, elm
Plate 11 from The Shape, Skeleton and Foliage of Thirty two species of Trees, 1786 by A. Cozens. Originally issued in 1771

Gazania splendens, gazania and Callicarpa purpurea, purple b
Plate 29 from The Illustrated Bouquet (1857-64) by Edward Geroge Henderson. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Asimina obovata, pawpaw apple
William Bartrams botanical specimens which he named Anona grandiflora, pawpaw apple. Bartram collected these during his expedition through the southern colonies for Dr. John Fothergill

Senna italica, Italian senna
Illustration of Italian senna from the John Fleming Collection, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Fraxinus excelsior, ash

Passiflora sp. passion flower
Page 74 from Illustration of the Sexual System of Linneaus (1779) vol 2, by John Miller (1715-c. 1790)

Hypericum perforatum, St. Johns wort
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Alder fly in Baltic amber
Alder fly, Megaloptera: Sialoidea in Baltic amber. Specimen dates from the Upper Eocene

Labiatae
Plate 112 from The Chief Natural Orders of Plants (1849). Illustrated and described by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Caltha palustris, yellow marsh marigold
Drawing 1/9 made in 1906 by Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Plate 031

Camellia thea, tea
llustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Passifloreae
Plate 105 from The Chief Natural Orders of Plants (1849). Illustrated and described by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Ara severus, chestnut-fronted maccaw
Plate 229, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 1 (1758)

Caesalpinia sappan, Indian redwood

Hyssopus officinalis, hyssop
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection at the Natural History Museum, London

Echium plantagineum, salvation Jane
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Hydrangea sp. hydrangea
Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Flycatcher, elliottia, purple malve and pipit
Drawin 19 from the Botanical and Zoological Drawings, 1756-1788 by William Bartram. Original artwork held in the Natural History Museum, London

Saxicola rubetra, whinchat, Saxicola torquata, common stonec
Plate 7 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 1 (1925)

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