Pratense Collection

Common cow-wheat, Melampyrum pratense. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1793

Holosteon or white plantain, Plantago albicans, and meadow flax, Linum pratense

Red clover, Trifolium pratense, mountain clover, T. montanum, and blue fenugreek, Trigonella caerulea

Red clover, Trifolium pratense
Common purple clover, red clover or honeysuckle trefoil, Trifolium pratense

Curtis British Entomology Plate 749
Diptera: Eumerus litoralis Curtis = Eumerus sabulonum [Plant: Phleum pratense (Timothy)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 225
Lepidoptera: Speranza sylvaria = Itame (or Macaria) brunneata (Rannoch Looper) [Plant: Melampyrum pratense (Meadow Cow-wheat)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 51
Coleoptera: Platypus cylindrus (Cylindric Ambrosia Beetle) [Plant: Geranium pratense (Meadow Crane?s Bill)] Date: 1824-39

Illustration, Pieridae -- Colias Palaeno, Colias Phicomone, Colias Hylae, Colias Edusa. The plants are Sainfoin (Onobrychis Sativa and Coronilla Varia) and Purple Clover (Trifolium Pratense)

Trifolium Pratense
RED, OR BROAD, CLOVER Date: circa 1880

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