EditorialMurex calcitrapa, Print, Murex is a genus of medium to large sized predatory tropical sea snails. These are carnivorous marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, commonly called "murexes" or "rock snails".
EditorialPurple starthistle, Centaurea calcitrapa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1793.
EditorialPurple starthistle, Centaurea calcitrapa, 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 i...