Sedge Collection

Thatching The Rest a cottage at Selworthy Green, Somerset (for a more recent - 1950s! - view, see 10826269). Date: circa 1920s

Sea pen species. Pteroeides griseum 1, and Veretillum cynomorium 2. Pennatula grigia, Pennatula o Veretillo cinomorio. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus

Reed grass and acute sedge, Carex acuta. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Sweet flag or cinnamon sedge, Acorus calamus. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Sedge, Carex acuta. 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

Purple orchid, Orchis mascula, and sedge grass, Carex hirta
Purple orchid, Orchis mascula, Gynandria, 1-3, and sedge grass, Carex hirta, Monoecia, 4-6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F

Chufa or tigernut sedge, Cyperus esculentus 1, tuberous roots 2, and earth almonds a, b. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Sweet flag, Acorus calamus
Sweet flag or calamus, Acorus calamus. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Sand sedge, Carex arenaria. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants)

Sedge Warbler
Sedge warbler perched on branch. Artist: Thomas Bewick

Curtis British Entomology Plate 712
Odonata: Libellula rubicunda, probably = Leucorrhinia dubia [Plant: Carex digitata (Fingered Sedge)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 706
Coleoptera: Triplax aenea [Plant: Carex divisa (Divided Sedge)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 672
Hymenoptera: Chelonus wesmaelii Curtis [Plant: Carex remota (Remote Sedge)] Date: 1824-39

Items from the Folk Museum, Cambridge including an eel trap
Items from the Folk Museum, Cambridge: Clockwise from top left, a Turf Becket and spade, an eel trap, and eel gleve, horse overshoes and a sedge knife. Date: circa 1920s

Cartridge with praenomen of Thutmose II. Deir el-Bahari. Egy
Cartridge with praenomen of Thutmose II. New Kingdom. Hatshepsuts Temple. Deir el-Bahari. Egypt

Roots, grass and flowers of halfchaff sedge, Lipocarpha microcephala Kunth.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Roots, reeds and flowers of variable flatsedge or smallflower umbrella-sedge, Cyperus difformis L.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu

Roots, leaves and flowers of coco-grass, purple nut sedge, red nut sedge, Cyperus rotundus L.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu

Rhizome and root of tidalmarsh flat sedge, Cyperus serotinus.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Japan - Sacred Bridge, Nikko
Red lacquer Shinkyo (Sacred Bridge), Nikko. Photograph shows the red lacquered Shinkyo (sacred bridge) spanning the Daiya River - part of the Futarasan Shrine complex. Date: circa 1910

Scirpus lacustris, true bulrush
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Carex arenaria, sand sedge
Illustration from Agnes Ibbetsons sketchbook of grasses, c.1809 -1822. Volume 3. No. 35. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Cyperus sp. sedge
Plate 621 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, c. 1795-1805. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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