EditorialCastor bean or castor oil plant, Ricinus communis, Ricin. Handcoloured steel engraving by Debray after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal: Flore Medicale, L...
EditorialCastor bean or castor oil plant, Ricinus communis, Ricin. Handcoloured steel engraving by Debray after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal: Flore Medicale, L...
Editorial'Palma chisti.' Palma christi. Ricinus. A large shrub having palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin. . Coloured drawings of plants, copied from nature in the Roman States, by Gerardo Cibo. Vol. I....
EditorialCastor oil plant or ricin, Ricinus communis (Ricinus vulgaris), with leaf, flower, stalk, and seed. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's "La Fl...