EditorialDevil's bit scabious, Succisa pratensis, and Herb Paris, Paris quadrifolia. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of il...
EditorialComfrey species, Symphytum officinale, and scabious, Scabiosa atropurpurea. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of il...
EditorialDevil's bit scabious, Succisa pratensis, and Herb Paris, Paris quadrifolia. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of il...
EditorialComfrey species, Symphytum officinale, and scabious, Scabiosa atropurpurea. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of il...
EditorialSplitleaf slipperwort, Calceolaria tripartita (Scabious-leaved slipperwort, Calceolaria scabiosifolia). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by John Curtis from William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis, ...
EditorialDaisy fleabane or sweet scabious, Erigeron heterophyllus. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialDevil's bit scabious, Succisa pratensis (Scabiosa succisa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.
EditorialSweet scabious, Scabiosa atropurpurea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards rom William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, London, 1793.
EditorialPincushion flower or sweet scabious, Scabiosa atropurpurea. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1857.
EditorialDevil's bit scabious, Succisa pratensis (Scabiosa succisa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1801.
EditorialSheep's-bit or sheep's scabious, Jasione montana. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1801.
EditorialField scabious, Knautia arvensis (Scabiosa arvensis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1799.
EditorialDevil's bit scabious, Scabiosa succisa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berl...
EditorialField scabious, Knautia arvensis, with flower, leaf, stalk, seed and leaf outline. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Pa...
EditorialSweet scabious, Scabiosa atropurpurea, and marigold, Calendula officinalis, flower fairies in flower headdress and dress of leaves and petals. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from "Le...
EditorialSea prickly samphire, Echinophora spinosa, and sheep's bit scabious, Jasione montana. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with Several Hundred Addition...
EditorialField scabious, Knautia arvensis, native to Europe. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnbe...
EditorialDevil's bit scabious, Succisa pratensis, native to Europe and north Africa. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated ...
EditorialCornflower, Centaurus cyanus 126, field scabious, Scabiosa arvensis 127 and fumitory, Fumaria officinalis 128. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration from G. T. Wilhelm's "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" (Encyclopedia of ...