Palustre Collection

Taraxacum Officinale
(var. palustre) COMMON DANDELION

Marsh cinquefoil, Comarum palustre. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1794

Duckweed, Lemna minor, and marsh horsetail, Equisetum palustre. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Water horehound, Lycopus europaeus, and lemon balm, Melissa officinalis. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Marsh Labrador tea or wild rosemary, Rhododendron tomentosum or Ledum palustre. Handcoloured lithograph by Henry Sowerby from Edward Hamiltons Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852

Bryophyta mosses: Thamnobryum alopecurum 1, Eurhynchium pumilum 2, Polytrichum commune 3, Sphagnum palustre 4, Splachnum luteum 5, Hypnum ligulatum 6, Rhodobryum roseum 7, Physcomitrium eurystomum 8

Curtis British Entomology Plate 558
Coleoptera: Pachyrhinus comari = Phytobius comari (Marsh Cinqfoil Weevil) [Plant: Potentilla palustris (Comarum palustre, Marsh Cinquefoil)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 397
Diptera: Drapetis aterrima = Crossopalpus curvipes (Sea-coast Drapetis) [Plant: Galium sp. (Galium palustre?, White Water-bedstraw)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 312
Lepidoptera: Scopula longipedalis = Dolicharthria punctalis (Long-legged China-mark) [Plant: Cirsium palustre (Cnicus palustris, Marsh Thistle)] Date: 1824-39

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