EditorialVelvet bean, Mucuna pruriens (Cowhage, Dolichos pruriens). Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer.
EditorialCommon bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, and small bean variety, Dolichos species. 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 ill...
EditorialVelvet bean, Mucuna pruriens (Cowhage, Dolichos pruriens). Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer.
EditorialCommon bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, and small bean variety, Dolichos species. 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 ill...
EditorialCowpea, Vigna unguiculata (Chinese dolichos, Dolichos sinensis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a drawing by William Herbert for Samuel Curtis' continuation of William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, London, 1822.
EditorialVelvet bean or Yokohama bean, Mucuna pruriens (Cow-hage dolichos, Dolichos pruriens). After an illustration in Stephenson and Churchill's "Medical Botany." Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or...