EditorialPurple sidesaddle plant, Sarracenia purpurea, yellow sidesaddle plant, Sarracenia flava, and taper-leaved caper, Capparis acuminata. Handfinished chromolithograph by Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flo...
EditorialManyflower or acuminated-leaved tobacco, Nicotiana acuminata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," London, 1829.
EditorialCucumbertree or blue magnolia, Magnolia acuminata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, London, 1810.
EditorialCucumbertree or blue magnolia, Magnolia acuminata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, London, 1810.
EditorialCucumbertree or blue magnolia, Magnolia acuminata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, London, 1810.
EditorialApple banana, Musa acuminata ? balbisiana. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration by Turpin, engraved by Stanghi, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, a...
EditorialBanana fruit, segment. Musa acuminata. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Corsi, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, a...
EditorialSage, Salvia acuminata, and wood sage, Salvia sylvestris. 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 illustrations only, ...
EditorialHerbst's bloodleaf varieties, Iresine herbstii a) var. acuminata, b) var. aureo-reticulata. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896.
EditorialWhite and pink China rose, Rosa chinensis. Rosa indica acuminata, Rosier des Indes a petales pointus. Stipple copperplate engraving by Jean Baptiste Chapuy handcoloured a la poupee after a botanical illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from the first ...
EditorialPurple sidesaddle plant, Sarracenia purpurea, yellow sidesaddle plant, Sarracenia flava, and taper-leaved caper, Capparis acuminata. Handfinished chromolithograph by Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flo...
EditorialWhite orchid-tree, Bauhinia acuminata. Handcoloured lithograph by D. Blair after an illustration by Lena Lowis from her Familiar Indian Flowers with Coloured Plates, L. Reeve, London, 1878. Lena Lowis, formerly Selena Caroline Shakespear (1845-1919), w...
EditorialFetterbush, Andromeda acuminata. Handcoloured stipple engraving by Mlle. Brenet after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau's Traite des Arbres et Arbustes, Paris, 1804-1819.
EditorialG. Cetonia 7, Beetle, Figs. 1-6: C. Acuminata, C. Corrosa, C. Atomaria, C. Rufocuprea, C. Rufina, C. Bivittata, Pl. 37, after p. 410, Gu?rin-M?neville, F?lix-?douard (pinx.); Oudet, Marie Nicolas (sc.); Raymond (imp.); Bailli?re, Jean-Baptiste (ed.)Gu?...
EditorialTerebratula acuminata, Print, Terebratula is a modern genus of brachiopods with a fossil record dating back to the Late Devonian. These brachiopods are stationary epifaunal suspension feeders and have a worldwide distribution.
EditorialFilaria acuminata, Print, The Filarioidea are a superfamily of highly specialised parasitic nematodes. Species within this superfamily are known as filarial worms or filariae (singular "filaria"). Infections with parasitic filarial worms cause disease ...
EditorialTringa acuminata, Print, Tringa is a genus of waders, containing the shanks and tattlers. The genus name Tringa is the New Latin name given to the green sandpiper by Aldrovandus in 1599 based on Ancient Greek trungas, a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail...
EditorialSage, Salvia acuminata, and wood sage, Salvia sylvestris. 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 illustrations only, ...
EditorialGlorious yucca, Yucca gloriosa (Tapering-flowered Adam's needle, Yucca acuminata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after Edwin Dalton Smith from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, London, 1854.
EditorialSouth Indian squill, Ledebouria revoluta (Drimia acuminata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1825.
EditorialSage, Salvia acuminata, and wood sage, Salvia sylvestris. 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 illustrations only, ...
EditorialGlorious yucca, Yucca gloriosa (Tapering-flowered Adam's needle, Yucca acuminata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after Edwin Dalton Smith from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, London, 1854.
EditorialSouth Indian squill, Ledebouria revoluta (Drimia acuminata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1825.
EditorialCross-leaved phlox or lychnidea, Phlox acuminata. Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell from John Sims' Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London, 1816.
EditorialKola nut or kola tree, Cola acuminata. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialMountain cabbage or Sierra palm, Prestoea acuminata, (trunk A, branch B, and seed C) and African slaves climbing a muriti palm or maureecee tree, Mauritia flexuosa (trunk D, branch E), muriti beetle F and edible worm G. Copperplate engraving after an o...
EditorialLaelia rubescens orchid (Laelia acuminata). 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, 1845.
EditorialKola nut or kola tree, Cola acuminata. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialManyflower or acuminated-leaved tobacco, Nicotiana acuminata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," London, 1829.
EditorialCucumbertree or blue magnolia, Magnolia acuminata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, London, 1810.
EditorialCucumbertree or blue magnolia, Magnolia acuminata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, London, 1810.
EditorialApple banana, Musa acuminata ? balbisiana. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration by Turpin, engraved by Stanghi, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, a...
EditorialBanana fruit, segment. Musa acuminata. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Corsi, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, a...