EditorialShowy Mexican scarlet thistle, Erythrolaena conspicua, Arabian cotton thistle, Onopordum arabicum, and blue-flowered carthamus, Carthamus caeruleus. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Ja...
EditorialSaw-wort, Serratula tinctoria 1, safflower, Carthamus tinctorius 2, and dyer's broom, Genista tinctoria 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795.
EditorialBlue thistle or blue-flowered carthamus, Carthamus caeruleus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by John Curtis from Samuel Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," London, 1822.
EditorialBenihana or safflower, Carthamus tinctorius. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialSafflower, Carthamus tinctorius, Carthame des teinturiers. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal: Planets Agricoles...
EditorialSafflower, Carthamus tinctorius. 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 Nurnberg in 1780 with 500...
EditorialField bur, Tribulus sylvestris, and safflower, Carthamus tinctorius. 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 illustrat...
EditorialStemless carline thistle, Carlina acaulis, and wild safflower, Carthamus oxyacanthus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or a...
EditorialShowy Mexican scarlet thistle, Erythrolaena conspicua, Arabian cotton thistle, Onopordum arabicum, and blue-flowered carthamus, Carthamus caeruleus. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Ja...
EditorialSafflower, Carthamus tinctorius, Carthame des teinturiers. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal: Planets Agricoles...
EditorialCnicus, Carthamus, Crocus Saracenicus, Wilder Saffran, Fol. 453v, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialField bur, Tribulus sylvestris, and safflower, Carthamus tinctorius. 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 illustrat...
EditorialLa Carthame de la Caroline. Blue safflower, Carthamus caeruleus. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la chine, que...
EditorialStemless carline thistle, Carlina acaulis, and wild safflower, Carthamus oxyacanthus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or a...
EditorialField bur, Tribulus sylvestris, and safflower, Carthamus tinctorius. 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 illustrat...
EditorialLa Carthame de la Caroline. Blue safflower, Carthamus caeruleus. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la chine, que...
EditorialStemless carline thistle, Carlina acaulis, and wild safflower, Carthamus oxyacanthus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or a...
EditorialSaw-wort, Serratula tinctoria 1, safflower, Carthamus tinctorius 2, and dyer's broom, Genista tinctoria 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795.
EditorialBlue thistle or blue-flowered carthamus, Carthamus caeruleus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by John Curtis from Samuel Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," London, 1822.
EditorialBenihana or safflower, Carthamus tinctorius. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialSafflower or false saffron, Carthamus tinctorius. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (177...
EditorialSafflower, Carthamus tinctorius. 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 Nurnberg in 1780 with 500...