Carex Collection

Lesser common carex, Carex acutiformis (Carex paludosa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Reed grass and acute sedge, Carex acuta. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Sedge, Carex acuta. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816

Purple orchid, Orchis mascula, and sedge grass, Carex hirta
Purple orchid, Orchis mascula, Gynandria, 1-3, and sedge grass, Carex hirta, Monoecia, 4-6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F

Sand sedge, Carex arenaria. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants)

Curtis British Entomology Plate 712
Odonata: Libellula rubicunda, probably = Leucorrhinia dubia [Plant: Carex digitata (Fingered Sedge)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 706
Coleoptera: Triplax aenea [Plant: Carex divisa (Divided Sedge)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 672
Hymenoptera: Chelonus wesmaelii Curtis [Plant: Carex remota (Remote Sedge)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 533
Diptera: Gonia ruficeps = Gonia picea (Red-headed Gonia) [Plant: Carex pseudocyperus (Carex pseudo-cyperus, Bastard Cyperus Carex)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 471
Lepidoptera: Adactylus bennetii = Agdistis staticis (Sea-side Plume) [Plant: Carex limosa (Green and Gold Carex)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 381
Hymenoptera: Lyda fasciata Curtis = Neurotoma saltuum (Barred Lyda) [Plant: Carex dioica (male Common Separate-headed Carex)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 82
Orthoptera: Acrida bingleii = Decticus verrucivorus (Bingleian Short-horned Grasshopper) [Plant: Carex caryophyllea (Carex praecox, Vernal Carex)] Date: 1824-39

Lantana camara by Adeline Frances Mary Duppa
Plate 33 from a bound volume drawings of flowers from Italy and Madeira, and of fungi from Ringwood, Hants. drawn between 1870-85

Carex arenaria, sand sedge
Illustration from Agnes Ibbetsons sketchbook of grasses, c.1809 -1822. Volume 3. No. 35. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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