Dioica Collection

Plants / Urtica Dioica
Common Nettle or Stinging Nettle

Bryonia Dioica
BRYONY

Valerian, Valeriana dioica, Valeriane dioique. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence

Greater argonaut and winged argonaut octopus
Greater argonaut octopus, Argonauta argo 1, and winged argonaut, Argonauta hians 2. Polpo navigatore degli Antichi, Polpo di Cranch

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

Stinging nettle, Urtica dioica, and hemp nettle, Galeopsis speciosa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Nettle, Urtica dioica, and dwarf nettle, Urtica urens. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Leaf vegetables, Herbes potageres. Chard, Beta vulgaris, nettle, Urtica dioica, rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum, garden orache, Atriplex hortensis

Common tailorbird, stinging nettle and aardvark
Common tailorbird, Orthotomus sutorius with nest, stinging nettle, Urtica dioica, and aardvark, Orycteropus afer. Handcoloured steel engraving from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire

Red-berried bryony, Bryonia cretica subsp. dioica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman

Allspice, Jamaica pepper or pimenta, Pimenta dioica (Pimenta officinalis). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Stinging nettle, Urtica dioica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Curtis British Entomology Plate 686
Coleoptera: Trachys minuta [Plant: Bryonia dioica (White Bryony)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 645
Diptera: Leia pulchella = Allocotocera pulchella (Curtis) [Plant: Antennaria dioica (Cat?s-foot)] 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 288
Lepidoptera: Hypena crassalis (Beautiful Snout) [Plant: Urtica dioica (Common Nettle)] 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

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

Illustration, Nymphalidae -- Vanessa Xanthomelas, Vanessa C-album, Vanessa Cardui, Vanessa Levana (variety Prorsa). The plants are Spear Thistle (Cirsium Lanceolatum)

Plants / Anthriscus Dioica
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