EditorialFilicinae or fern plants: Alsophila species, Polypodium species, Asplenium nidus, Angiopteris species, Monogramma species, and Pteris quadriaurita. Chromolithograph by Adolf Glitsch from an illustration by Ernst Haeckel from Art Forms in Nature, Kunstf...
EditorialBird's-nest orchid, Neottia nidus-avis. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendal's German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871.
EditorialBird's nest fern or spleenwort, Asplenium nidus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," London, 1831.
EditorialBird's nest orchid, Neottia nidus-avis (Bird's nest ophrys, Ophrys nidus-avis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1792.