Flowering Plant Collection (page 7)

LS Plate 14 from the John Reeves Collection
Large Series plate 14, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Balsamodendron myrrah, myrrh gum tree
Plate 60 from Medicinal Plants by Robert Bentley & Henry Trimen, Vol 1 1880. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Porzana parva, little crake
Plate 90 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Falco vespertinus, red-footed falcon
Plate 20 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 1 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Nymphaea coerulea, blue Egyptian water lily
Illustration from The Temple of Flora (1812) by Dr Robert John Thornton (1768-1837)

Hibiscus tiliaceus, sea hibiscus
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Hibiscus tricuspis

Ananas sp
Plate 929 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Artocarpus altilis, breadfruit tree
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Sitodium altile

Paeonia cv
Plate 2 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Lavandula pinnata, lavender
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Neem Tree
Illustration of a Neem Tree held in the Botany Library a the Natural History Museum, London

Geranium pratense, meadow cranesbill
Plate 114 from Flora Londinensis (1826) Vol 1 by William Curtis

Magnolia sp. fossil magnolia leaf
A fossil magnolia leaf from the Upper Cretaceous, Senonian, leaf from Harz, Saxony. Specimen 240 mms long

Physostigma venenosum, calabar bean
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Allium sativum, garlic
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Beauregard Admiral and B met De Breeboort, tulips
Page 129 (130) from Flora Exotica (1720) by Johann Gottfried Simula

Grus japonensis, red-crowned crane
Plate 61, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Cephaelis ipecacuanha, ipecac

Achras zapota, chicle tree
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Passiflora caerulea, blue passion flower

Symphytum officinale, common comfrey
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Brasenia schreberi, water shield
Plate 3 from Botanical Drawings from Australia (1801) by Ferdinand L Bauer (1760-1826)

Gallus gallus, red junglefowl
Plate 32, a watercolour by Joseph Wolf from Daniel G. Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Adenia heterophylla, lacewing vine
Plate 60 from Botanical Drawings from Australia (1801) by Ferdinand L Bauer (1760-1826)

Banyan tree, St. Thomas, West Indies 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Fragaria sp. strawberry
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a strawberry (Fragaria sp.), artificially coloured by computer

Lavandula angustifolia, common lavender
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Galeandra baueri, orchid
Illustration from Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala (1837-43) by James Bateman. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Echium pininana, tower of jewels
The flower spikes of this plant can grow up to 3 metres and has hundreds of purple blue flowers in summer

Doryanthes excelsa, gymea lily
Coloured engraving by Ferdinand Bauer, published in Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae (1816). Made from field sketches

Acrocinus longimanus, harlequin beetle and Citrus medica, et

Paeonia humilis. Dried specimen taken from the museum herbarium. Cultivated at Boxford Suffolk by Miss Jenny Robinson. Source probably South of France

Ceriops tagal, yellow mangrove tree
Outline drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage, 1768-1771. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

The Furze Platt Hand Axe
The Furze Platt hand axe from the Acheulian culture (Lower Palaeolithic) about 400, 000 years ago. Found in Britain in 1919 the hand axe weighs 2.8 kilos and is 30.6 cm long

Prunus padus L. XXV 95, bird cherry
An illustrative plate of a a bird cherry tree, flowers and fruit, taken from the 1913 botanical work Icones Florae Germanicae by Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbachof

Turnera ulmifolia var. angustifolia, yellow alder
Drawing by J.S. Miller [pl. 269]. Image used in The Chelsea Gardener Philip Miller (1990) by Hazel Le Rougetel, plate 8

Syringa vulgaris, common lilac
Drawing by Richard Lancake. Image used in The Chelsea Gardener Philip Miller (1990) by Hazel Le Rougetel, plate 2

Ensifera ensifera, sword-billed hummingbird
Plate 233, hand coloured lithograph from A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, (1861) by John Gould

Papilio panthous, swallowtail
Plate 18 from Insects of India by Edward Donovan (1768-1837)

Papaver orientale, oriental poppy
Illustration from Flora Exotica (1720) by Johann Gottfried Simula. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Annona glabra, pond apple

Psidium pyriferum, red guava
Illustration by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Caryophyllus aromaticus, clove
Plate 64 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Prunus sp. large common whiteheart cherry
Illustration from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Gros bigarreau commun

Strix aluco, tawny owl
Plate 68 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 2 (1925)

Nymphaea capensis var. zanzibariensis, cape blue waterlily
Drawing by Arthur Harry Church, 1907. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Plate 133

Artocarpus chaplasha, chapalish
Leaves and fruit of the chapalish tree (Artocarpus chaplasha). Illutration from the John Fleming collection

Fran Kern with herbarium specimen
Fran Kern a botanist at the Natural History Museum, London. The specimen featured is Nymphaea candida C. Presl, candid water lily collected in Sweden

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