Sium Collection

Great water-parsnip, Sium latifolium
Great water-parsnip or broad-leaved water parsnep, Sium latifolium. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1794

Spiked rampion, Phyteuma spicatum, skirret, Sium sisarum, and turnip, Brassica rapa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt

Water parsnip, Sium suave, and water speedwell, Veronica anagallis-aquatica. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Root vegetables, racines et tubercule alimentaires. Salsify, Tragopogon porrifolium, skirret, Sium sisarum, oca or New Zealand yam, Oxalis crenata, parsnip, Pastinaca sativa, and black salsify

Curtis British Entomology Plate 750
Coleoptera: Rhagium inquisitor = Rhagium mordax [Plant: Sium latifolium (Great Water Parsnip)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 531
Coleoptera: Hygrotus decoratus (Ornamented Hygrotus) [Plant: ? (Sium nodiflorum, Procumbent Water Parsnep)] Date: 1824-39

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