Lychnis Collection

Sticky catchfly, Silene viscaria (red German catchfly, Lychnis viscaria). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Lychnis and campion species
Scarlet lychnis, Lychnis chalcedonica, Chinese lychnis, Lychnis coronata, fulgent lychnis, Lychnis fulgens, Bunges scarlet campion, Agrostemma bungeana, rose campion, Agrostemma coronaria

Ragged Robin, Lychnis flos-cuculi, and black false hellebore, Veratrum nigrum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Red campion, Silene dioica, and white behmen, Centaurea behen. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Mallow, Malva sylvestris, and ragged robin
Mallow, Malva sylvestris, Monadelphia, 1-4, and ragged robin, Lychnis flos-cuculi, Decandria, 5, 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F

Catchfly species, Lychnis senno
Le Lychnide a fleurs laciniees couleur de Saffron de la Chine. Catchfly species, Lychnis senno. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus

Burning love, Silene chalcedonica (Scarlet lychnis, Lychnis chalcedonica). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis Botanical

Chinese lychnis or ragged robin, Lychnis coronata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1793

Curtis British Entomology Plate 591
Lepidoptera: Euplocamus mediellus = Morophaga boleti (Boletus Tinea) [Plant: Lychnis flos-cuculi (Ragged Robin)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 182
Diptera: Rhingia campestris = Rhingia macrocephala (Chequered-bodied Hover-fly) [Plant: Silene dioica (Melandrium rubrum; Lychnis dioica var. diurna, Red Campion)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 54
Hymenoptera: Lophyrus pini = Diprion pini (Pine Sawfly) [Plant: Silene latifolia, = S. alba, Melandrium album (male; Lychnis dioica mas, White Campion)] Date: 1824-39

LYCHNIS FLOS-CUCULI
RAGGED ROBIN Date: early 20th century

PLANTS / LYCHNIS DIOICA
RED CAMPION Date: early 20th century

Replicas of the Koh-I-Noor diamond
Replicas of the Kor-i-noor diamond created from cubic zirconia by John Nels Hatleberg

Lychnis coronata
Watercolour on paper, 1777 by Getrude Metz (1746-1793). Held in the Library and Archives Date: 1777

Lychnis chalcedonica, Maltese cross
Plate 26 from Ladies Flower Garden Annuals (1843) by Jane Wells Loudon. Also shows Coronata, Fulgens, Agrostemma Saponaria and Gypsophylla

Lychnis coronaria, prick nose
Watercolour 19 by Arthur Harry Church, 12 July 1905. Plate 171

Ragged Robin & Lily of V
CONVALLARIA (Lily-of-the- valley) & LYCHNIS FLOS- CUCULI (Ragged Robin) depicted with blue & yellow butterflies. Date: 1867

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