EditorialJagged-flowered gentian, Gentiana crinita, fringe-flowered gentian, Gentiana ciliata, Caucasian gentian, G. caucasica, spring gentian, G. verna, and common gentianella, G. acaulis. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustra...
EditorialStemless gentian, Gentiana acaulis. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by William Clark from Richard Morris's "Flora Conspicua" London, Longman, Rees, 1826. William Clark was former draughtsman to the London Horticultural Society an...
EditorialLarge-flowered gentian or gentianella, Gentiana acaulis. Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1787.
EditorialDwarf thistle, Cirsium acaulon (Carduus acaulis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1794.
EditorialStemless gentian, Gentiana acaulis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1806.
EditorialHandscreen, Painted paper leaf, turned wood handle, Handscreen with a hand-painted paper leaf. Obverse: a colorful bouquet of flowers. Reverse: blue trumpet shaped flowers resembling Gentiana Acaulis. Turned wood handle., France, England, mid- 18th cen...
EditorialDwarf carline thistle, Carlina acaulis. 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 w...
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...
EditorialStemless gentian, Gentiana acaulis. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by William Clark from Richard Morris's "Flora Conspicua" London, Longman, Rees, 1826. William Clark was former draughtsman to the London Horticultural Society an...
EditorialJagged-flowered gentian, Gentiana crinita, fringe-flowered gentian, Gentiana ciliata, Caucasian gentian, G. caucasica, spring gentian, G. verna, and common gentianella, G. acaulis. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustra...
EditorialLarge-flowered gentian or gentianella, Gentiana acaulis. Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1787.
EditorialSpiderwort, Tradescantia crassifolia var. acaulis (Iridescent tradescantia, Tradescantia iridescens). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after W. B. Booth from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Wil...
EditorialLe Gentian blue. Blue gentian, Gentiana acaulis, with white-lined sphinx moth, Hyles lineata. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans...
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...
EditorialLarge-flowered gentian or gentianella, Gentiana acaulis. Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1787.
EditorialSpiderwort, Tradescantia crassifolia var. acaulis (Iridescent tradescantia, Tradescantia iridescens). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after W. B. Booth from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Wil...
EditorialLe Gentian blue. Blue gentian, Gentiana acaulis, with white-lined sphinx moth, Hyles lineata. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans...
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...
EditorialAfrican daisy, Arctotis acaulis var. speciosa. 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, 1856.
EditorialViolet cress, Cochlearia acaulis (Stemless violet-cress, Ionopsidium acaule). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards' Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, London, Ridgeway, 1846.
EditorialEvening primrose, Oenothera acaulis. 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, 1857.
EditorialDwarf thistle, Cirsium acaulon (Carduus acaulis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1794.
EditorialStemless gentian, Gentiana acaulis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1806.
EditorialDwarf carline thistle, Carlina acaulis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berl...
EditorialDwarf carline thistle, Carlina acaulis. 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 w...