Hemlock Collection

Plants bearing fruits and seeds
Plants bearing berries and seeds including guava, membrillo, brazil nut, mistletoe, spotted laurel, cannonball tree, cactus, eucalyptus, myrtle, clove, caraway, coriander, hemlock, cumin, etc

Poisonous Plants
Water Hemlock (Cicuta Virosa); Conium Maculatum; Digitalis Purpurea; Cypress Spurge (Euphorbia Cyparissias); Pasque Flower (Anemone Pulsatilla); Autumn Crocus

Fools parsley, hemlock and northern water hemlock
Fools parsley, Aethusa cynapium 1, hemlock, Conium maculatum 2, and northern water hemlock, Cicuta virosa 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Socrates / Hemlock / Anon
SOCRATES Greek philosopher taking hemlock

Socrates / Hemlock / Manceau
SOCRATES Greek philosopher taking hemlock

Eastern hemlock or Canadian hemlock, Tsuga canadensis (Hemlock spruce, Pinus canadensis). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Socrates (c 469399 BC). Classical Greek Athenian philosophe
Socrates (c.469-399 BC). Classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Socrates in prison before being sentenced to death. Colored engraving

Socrates last drink
Socrates (470 - 399 BC) drinks the hemlock, knowing it will be his last drink

Hemlock, Conium maculatum. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Mains Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer

Common hemlock, Conium maculatum. Handcoloured lithograph by Henry Sowerby after an illustration by M. D. from Edward Hamiltons Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852

Cowbane or water hemlock, Cicuta virosa. Handcoloured lithograph by Henry Sowerby from Edward Hamiltons Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852

Fumiter, Furrow weeds, Hardocks, Hemlock, Nettles, Cuckow-flowers, Darnell and Corn (King Lear). Handcoioured botanical illustration drawn

Hemlock stork s-bill, Erodium cicutarium. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Water hemlock, Cicuta virosa. 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

Hemlock water dropwort, Oenanthe crocata. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Cowbane or northern water hemlock, Cicuta virosa. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Poison hemlock, Conium maculatum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Curtis British Entomology Plate 688
Hymenoptera: Cynips nervosa Curtis = Diplolepis nervosa (Curtis) [Plant: Conium maculatum (Common Hemlock)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 231
Coleoptera: Dromius spilotus (Epaulet Dromius), = Syntomus obscuroguttatus [Plant: Erodium cicutarium? (Erodium cicutarium var. Hemlock Crane?s-bill)] Date: 1824-39

Hemlock flower fairy, Conium maculatum.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees, Flower Fairies, Paris

Calyx examples: primrose, snowdrop, hazel, hemlock, grass, mushroom, and moss.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures

Hemlock, Conium maculatum.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures on Botany, as delivered in the Botanic Garden at Lambeth

Shepherds needle, Scandix pecten veneris, and hemlock chervil, Scandix anthriscus.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Joshua Hamiltons Culpepers English Family Physician 1792

Plants / Conium Maculatum
HEMLOCK, or POISON PARSLEY Date: early 20th century

The hemlock cup of the Republican Socrates. Illustration shows the Republican elephant labeled GOP. about to drink from a cup labeled Reciprocity, with him are several men labeled Root, Sherman

Grandville Hemlock 1847
CIGUE hemlock (conium maculatum) Date: 1847

Conium Maculatum
HEMLOCK French : cigue

Plants / Aethusa Cynapium
Lesser Hemlock, or Fools Parsley

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