Sisymbrium Collection

Watercress, Nasturtium officinale (Sisymbrium nasturtium). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1801

Water rocket, Eruca aquatica, and London rocket, Sisymbrium irio. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

White mustard, Sinapis alba, and hedge mustard, Sisymbrium officinale. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Watercress, Nasturtium officinale, and pennyroyal, Mentha pulegium. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Hedge mustard, Sisymbrium officinale, Erysimum officinale, Velar. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alphonse-Leon Noel after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A

Flixweed, herb-Sophia or tansy mustard, Descurainia sophia, Sisymbrium sophia, Sisybre parviflore

Curtis British Entomology Plate 705
Diptera: Rhagio heyshami Curtis = Rhagio notatus [Plant: Sisymbrium officinale (Hedge Mustard)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 542
Coleoptera: Lixus angustatus (Narrowed Lixus Weevil), = Lixus pulverentulus (a mainland-European species) [Plant: Descurainia sophia (Sisymbrium sophia, Flix-weed)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 474
Coleoptera: Hallomenus flexuosus = Abdera flexuosa (Banded Hallomenus) [Plant: Rorippa sylvestris (Sisymbrium sylvestre, Creeping Water-cress)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 292
Coleoptera: Mononychus pseudacori = Mononychus punctumalbum (Single-clawed Weevil) [Plant: Diplotaxis tenuifolia (Sisymbrium tenuifolium, Wall Rocket)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 201
Lepidoptera: Melia flammea = Senta (Mythimna) flammea (Flame Wainscot) [Plant: Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum (Sisymbrium nasturtium, Water-cress)] Date: 1824-39

SISYMBRIUM ALLIARIA
JACK-BY-THE-HEDGE Date: early 20th century

Watercress, Sisymbrium nasturtium-aquaticum.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by French botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard from Herbier de la France, Paris, 1780

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